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- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice
- When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion
- One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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