I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
Quote by Jane Austen
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
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Jane Austen Quotes
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
- Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.
- Those who do not complain are never pitied.
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
- Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
- Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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