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
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- 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.
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- 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.
- What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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