"I do not like to have people..." - Quote by Jane Austen
I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
More by Jane Austen
“Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”
“Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.”
“All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.”
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“My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.”
“If you need to bring in a business partner, make sure your partner brings along some money.”
“No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.”