Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Author: Jane Austen

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

A lady's imagination is very rapid, it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment

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

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.