Know your own happiness.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose six completed works - including 'Pride and Prejudice,' 'Sense and Sensibility,' and 'Emma' - transformed the novel into a vehicle for precise social observation and psychological insight. Her ironic wit and mastery of free indirect discourse made her one of the most influential prose stylists in English literature.
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Jane Austen's Other Quotes
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.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
-- Zeno of Citium
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
-- Zeno of Citium
Every person's life is a journey toward himself.
-- Hermann Hesse
All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.
-- Alexandre Dumas
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
-- Alexandre Dumas
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.
-- Herman Melville