"None but a woman can teach the..." - Quote by Jane Austen
None but a woman can teach the science of herself.
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“An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.”
“Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.”
“I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.”
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“How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.”
“We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.”
“Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.”
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“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.”
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“I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.”