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Pleasure

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

- Jane Austen

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

- Francis Bacon

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Self

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

- Jane Austen

Women Man Being Will

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

- Jane Austen

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

- Jane Austen

Vanity

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

- Jane Austen

Man

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

- Jane Austen

Nation Rest Will

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

- Jane Austen

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