Jane Austen Quotes and Quotations
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation? That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself. Grant us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard. The less said the better. Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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