Jane Austen

England
16 Dec 1775 // 18 Jul 1817
Novelist

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Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Northanger Abbey
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Emma
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Sense And Sensibility
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Sense And Sensibility
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Pride and Prejudice
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Pride and Prejudice
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

Persuasion
We can all begin freely � a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Pride and Prejudice
Success supposes endeavour.

Emma
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

Pride and Prejudice
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