"It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

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We do not suffer by accident.

More Jane Austen quotes
"He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…
"It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
"Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
"I understand you.—You do not suppose that I have ever felt much.—For four months, Marianne, I have had all this hanging on my mind, without being at l...