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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

~Jane Austen

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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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

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

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

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A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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

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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: December 16th, 1775

Died: July 18th, 1817

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