I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Quote by Jane Austen
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
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Jane Austen Quotes
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
- I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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- I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life.