Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Quote by Jane Austen
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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
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Jane Austen Quotes
- 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.
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- 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?
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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