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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

Other quotes by Jane Austen

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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Letters
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Jane Austen
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. – Jane Austen

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Opportunity
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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

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Men
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Jane Austen
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Other Quotes from
Ridicule
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Ridicule

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

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Ridicule

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

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Ridicule

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. – Mark Twain

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Ridicule

Random Quotes

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn. – Sarah Knowles Bolton

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We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail. – George W. Bush

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Freedom

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, youll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a moral value – affordable health care is a moral value etc., – then youll appeal to red-state voters. – Eric Liu

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Health

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming – all these are very clearly tied to energy. – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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Leadership