Jane Austen

England
16 Dec 1775 // 18 Jul 1817
Novelist

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On Reason:

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

Persuasion

On Pleasure:

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Emma

On People:

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Emma

On Passion:

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

Pride and Prejudice

On Suffering:

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Pride and Prejudice

On Sensibility:

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Emma

On Happiness:

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Sense And Sensibility

On Opinion:

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

Pride and Prejudice

On Truth:

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.

Emma

On Life:

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Mansfield Park
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