9 Quotes by Jane Austen about people
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.""I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.
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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
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I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.
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But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.
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Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.
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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.
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My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming--one other person at least.
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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
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