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
- 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 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.
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
- What dreadful hot 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.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Best Quotes
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- The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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- The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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