It was perhaps one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

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.

Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

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

Good night and sweet dreams, my love!