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Why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Emma
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Sense And Sensibility
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
Pride and Prejudice
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation.
Pride and Prejudice
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
Pride and Prejudice
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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