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“Many sheep but one Shepherd.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A sheep without a shepherd, go astray.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
― Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I am excessively diverted.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.”
― Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice

“One word from you shall silence me forever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We do not suffer by accident.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Every savage can dance.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“Hypocrites get offended by the truth.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bad Romance: Seven Deadly Sins Anthology

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
― George Carlin

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye