Jane Austen

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ↗

— Jane Austen

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. ↗

— Jane Austen

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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. ↗

— Jane Austen

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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. ↗

— Jane Austen

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. ↗

— Jane Austen

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. ↗

— Jane Austen

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One man's style must not be the rule of another's. ↗

— Jane Austen

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