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Quote by Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbl

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. – Jane Austen

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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen

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Pleasure
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. – Jane Austen

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Women
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen

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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. – Sir Walter Scott

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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. – Franz Grillparzer

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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. – Jean De La Bruyere

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It is always good to explore the stuff you dont agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didnt know. – Laura Linney

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A painting that is well composed is half finished. – Pierre Bonnard

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