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.
Quote by Jane Austen
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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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Jane Austen Quotes
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
- 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 can not understand the pleasures of the other.
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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- I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
- Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
- We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
- The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
- There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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- Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
- The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?