I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Learning Contentment: Finding Happiness Beyond Deserved
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A Single Man’s Search for a Wife
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
The Joy of Reading: A Must-Have Library for a Happy Home
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Fond of Dancing: A Step Towards Falling in Love
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
I Cannot Fix on the Hour: Foundation of Unknown Beginning
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
For What Do We Live? Laughter and Sport for Our Neighbors
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
A Love Confession
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I cannot make speeches, Emma…If I loved you less, I might talk about it more.
Jane Austen – Emma
Laughing at Life’s Whims and Follies: A Tribute to Wisdom and Goodness
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I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Sensible Silly Actions
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Jane Austen – Emma
Deserving the Best
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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
Jane Austen – Emma