What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Quote by Jane Austen
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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Jane Austen Quotes
- Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
- I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
- We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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