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.
- What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- Those who do not complain are never pitied.
- 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.
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
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