Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Quote by Jane Austen
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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Jane Austen Quotes
- 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.
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
- 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.
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
- One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
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