Favorite Jane Austen quotes

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• Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

• Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

• Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

• In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

• A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

• How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

• My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company..