Jane Austen - From the Communication category:
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. (Jane Austen)
Jane Austen - From the Disappointment category:
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. (Jane Austen)
Jane Austen - From the Pleasure category:
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. (Jane Austen)
Jane Austen - From the Preparation category:
Why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. (Jane Austen)
Jane Austen - From the Success category:
Success supposes endeavor. (Jane Austen)
Jane Austen - From the Suffering category:
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. (Jane Austen)
Jane Austen - From the Work category:
How could I possibly join them on to the little bit - two inches wide - of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour. (Jane Austen)
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