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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

~Jane Austen

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

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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.

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Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.

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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: December 16th, 1775

Died: July 18th, 1817

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