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«Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.»
«For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?»
«I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.»
«Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.»
«One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
laughing, now and then, stumbling, wittiest, witty
«You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Christianity,
Forgiveness
| Keywords:
hearing, mentioned, names
«They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admitting, afford, consolation, increase, reflection, resolved, seeking, wholly, wretchedness
«What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
continual, dreadful, hot, hotter, hot weather, inelegance, keeps, state, weather, weathered, weathers
«Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.»
«One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty»
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