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    Jane Austen
    “A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: knowledge, women
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
    tags: friends, humor, people
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    Jane Austen
    “Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: friendship
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    Jane Austen
    “I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: life
    676 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too. ”
    ― Jane Austen
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    Jane Austen
    “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    tags: disposition, intimacy, marianne-dashwood, openness, opportunity, self-disclosure, time
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Jane Austen
    “We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.”
    ― Jane Austen
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: understanding
    561 likes

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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
    tags: integrity
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: language
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
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  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
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  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bank, bankers, humor
    1600 likes

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  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education
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  • #23
    Laurence J. Peter
    “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
    ― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
    tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity
    1409 likes

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  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-children
    1104 likes

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  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
    3791 likes

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  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: definitions, forgiveness
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  • #28
    Abraham H. Maslow
    “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
    ― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
    tags: assumptions, hammer, instrumentalism, problem-solving, psychology, science, temptation
    1084 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage
    1200 likes

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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: honors
    631 likes



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