"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
-Jane Austen
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
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"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."
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
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