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"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
13+ Quotes by Jane Austen
A curated collection of 13 inspirational quotes by Jane Austen on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
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"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
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"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
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"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
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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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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."
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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."
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"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."
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"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."
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"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."
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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."