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
- To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
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