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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Mansfield Park
People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
Pride and Prejudice
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; � it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
Sense And Sensibility
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
Sense And Sensibility
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!
Persuasion
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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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