Jane Austen
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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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.
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.
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.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
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.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
I've always been a bit of a car freak.
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
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