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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. – Jane Austen

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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. – Jane Austen

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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. – Jane Austen

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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. – Jane Austen

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I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. Thats not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. – Voltaire

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It will work. I am a marketing genius. – Paris Hilton

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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words. – Albert Schweitzer

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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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