Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

Jane Austen in from a letter to her niece (18 November 1814)
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Jane Austen in Emma
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Jane Austen in Mansfield Park
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

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