Marriage is indeed a manoeuvring business.

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.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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.

Marry or not? Whichever you do, you will repent it.

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pachyderm!'