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Jane Austen
British
Writer
Born:
Dec 16
,
1775
Died:
Jul 18
,
1817
Always
Cannot
Good
Love
Man
Woman
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen
Hope
You
Must
No Hope
Know
Because
Always
Selfishness
Cure
Forgiven
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
Love
Friendship
Moving On
Finest
Disappointed
Balm
Certainly
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen
Good
Great
Conversation
People
Great Deal
Clever
Idea
Call
Well-Informed
Deal
Who
Good Company
Company
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
Words
Pride
Think
Vain
Others
Relates
Our
Though
Ourselves
Would
Vanity
More
Without
Opinion
Proud
Person
May
Often
Being
Different
Us
Used
Different Things
Things
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
Day
Nature
Sit
Fine
Fine Day
Shade
Perfect
Look
Most
Refreshment
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
Truth
Good
Man
Marriage
Wife
Single
Possession
Must
Single Man
Want
Acknowledged
Fortune
Good Fortune
Universally
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen
You
People
Will
More
Them
Themselves
Less
Who
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen
You
Able
About
More
Talk
Loved
Might
Less
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
World
Half
Other
Pleasures
One Half
Understand
Cannot
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane Austen
Woman
Sometimes
Before
Ten
Ten Years
She
Years
Than
Happens
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen
Complain
Those
Never
Pitied
Who
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Jane Austen
Man
Every
Neighborhood
Spies
Voluntary
Surrounded
Every Man
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen
Sometimes
Nothing
Carelessness
Humility
More
Only
Indirect
Opinion
Than
Deceitful
Often
Boast
Appearance
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.
Jane Austen
Education
World
Girl
Settling
Further
Introduce
Give
Properly
Ten
She
Well
Without
Expense
Anybody
Means
Her
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane Austen
Good
Too
Minds
Having
Nobody
Them
One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
Jane Austen
Man
Style
Rule
Must
Another
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.
Jane Austen
Truth
Complete
Something
Seldom
Mistaken
Disclosure
Does
Very
Any
Human
Disguised
Happen
Little
Belong
My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
Jane Austen
Worse
Throats
Sore
Always
Than
Anyone
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
Jane Austen
Mend
Month
Sure
Going
Next
Things
Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.
Jane Austen
Me
Nothing
Like
Doing
Ever
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen
Great
Me
People
Great Deal
Trouble
Saves
Liking
Deal
Very
Want
Them
Agreeable
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
Considerable
Pleasure
Foolish
Surprises
Often
Enhanced
Things
Inconvenience
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Jane Austen
Love
General
Very
Essence
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Jane Austen
Speak
Enough
Well
Well Enough
Cannot
Unintelligible
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen
Politics
Silence
Easy
Step
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
Woman
Misfortune
Conceal
Knowing
She
Well
Anything
Should
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