"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
                
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            Jane Austen
11 quotes
Quotes by Jane Austen
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort."
"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."
"Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet"
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."
"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."