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« It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable. » – Jane Austen
« Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. » – Jane Austen
« Well! Evil to some is always good to others. » – Jane Austen
« A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. » – Jane Austen
“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before” – Jane Austen
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” – Jane Austen
I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.- Jane Austen (1775 – 1817), Mansfield Park
The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.Jane Austen (1775 – 1817), Mansfield Park
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.- Jane Austen (1775 – 1817), Northanger Abbey
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.- Jane Austen (1775 – 1817), Mansfield Park