"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."
-Jane Austen
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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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"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
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"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
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"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
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