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.
Quote by Jane Austen
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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.
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Jane Austen Quotes
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- 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 cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
- One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
- 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.
- What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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- The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
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- He who hath many friends hath none.
- In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.
- Non-violence is the article of faith.
- Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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