She considered that there were misfortunes of a much greater magnitude than the loss of a ball experienced every day by some part of mortality, and that the time might come when she would herself look back with wonder and perhaps envy on her having known no greater vexation.


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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa...
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Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo...
JANE AUSTEN
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al...
JANE AUSTEN
Beware how you give your heart.
JANE AUSTEN
My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ...
JANE AUSTEN
Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect...
JANE AUSTEN
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...
JANE AUSTEN
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...
JANE AUSTEN
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...
JANE AUSTEN
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...
JANE AUSTEN
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
JANE AUSTEN
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these...
JANE AUSTEN
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
JANE AUSTEN
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
JANE AUSTEN
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
JANE AUSTEN
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
JANE AUSTEN
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...
JANE AUSTEN
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
JANE AUSTEN
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
JANE AUSTEN
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
JANE AUSTEN
My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ...
JANE AUSTEN
One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it
JANE AUSTEN
But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ...
JANE AUSTEN
Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu...
JANE AUSTEN
It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno...
JANE AUSTEN
You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN
It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
JANE AUSTEN
My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m...
JANE AUSTEN
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
JANE AUSTEN
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
JANE AUSTEN
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ...
JANE AUSTEN
She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ...
JANE AUSTEN
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ...
JANE AUSTEN
I am excessively diverted.
JANE AUSTEN
Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...
JANE AUSTEN
Every thing nourishes what is strong already.
JANE AUSTEN