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Angry people are not always wise.

Angry people are not always wise.

Jane Austen
Life, Wise, Anger
Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.472, Ageless Reads

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

Jane Austen
Life, Heart, Suffering
"Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", 1995.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Jane Austen
Life, Change, Opinion
Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.217

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Jane Austen
Life, Party, Break
'Emma' (1816) ch. 25 (Mr Woodhouse)

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

Jane Austen
Life, Selfish, Ambition
Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.307, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Jane Austen
Life, Happiness, Being Yourself
Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.368

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Jane Austen
Life, Girl, Years
Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.603, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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