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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.””

— Jane Austen

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.””

— Jane Austen

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.””

— Jane Austen

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.””

— Jane Austen

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.””

— Jane Austen

“Angry people are not always wise.””

— Jane Austen

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.””

— Jane Austen

“What are men to rocks and mountains?””

— Jane Austen

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.””

— Jane Austen