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 cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- 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.
- To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
- 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.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- 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.
- What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
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