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Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage...

Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Source: Pride & Prejudice/...

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Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either...

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Jane Austen: It is happy...

Jane Austen: It is happy...

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing...

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Jane Austen: One of Edward's...

Jane Austen: One of Edward's...

One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not...

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Jane Austen: Surprises are foolish...

Jane Austen: Surprises are foolish...

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often...

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Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...

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Jane Austen: The sooner every...

Jane Austen: The sooner every...

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Source: Emma, Ch. 25
-- Jane...

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Richard Bach: Every gift from...

Richard Bach: Every gift from...

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. . .

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Richard Bach: That she won...

Richard Bach: That she won...

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm...

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Richard Bach: That's what learning...

Richard Bach: That's what learning...

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it...

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Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...

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Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of...

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George Eliot: When we get...

George Eliot: When we get...

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and...

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George Eliot: One must be...

George Eliot: One must be...

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...

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George Eliot: There is a...

George Eliot: There is a...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy,...

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George Eliot: In the schoolroom...

George Eliot: In the schoolroom...

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts...

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George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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G K Chesterton: You have weighed...

G K Chesterton: You have weighed...

You have weighed the stars in the balance, and grasped the skies in a span:
Take, if you must have answer, the word...

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G K Chesterton: The rolling English...

G K Chesterton: The rolling English...

The rolling English drunkard made the rolling
English road.
A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles...

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G K Chesterton: Tea, although an...

G K Chesterton: Tea, although an...

Tea, although an Oriental,
Is a gentleman at least;
Cocoa is a cad and coward,
Cocoa is a vulgar...

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