Quote by Jane Austen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever re

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. – Jane Austen

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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. – Jane Austen

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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. – Jane Austen

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great
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. . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study? – Jane Austen

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Id love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, How do you make your marriage work? I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. Hes this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor. – Sherri Shepherd

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I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both. – Catherine Helen Spence

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Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. – William Congreve, The Old Bachelor, 1693

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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