Jane Austen

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"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."	Friends, Love
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."	Ability, Desires, Monarchy
"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering."	Love
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."	Miscellaneous
"There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves."	Honesty, Truth
"Those who do not complain are never pitied."	Miscellaneous
"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"	Fear, Men

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