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Quote by Jane Austen
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what h

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. – Jane Austen

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen

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Beauty
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Jane Austen
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. – Jane Austen

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Self
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Jane Austen
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Friendship
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Watching John Lasseters films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what hes doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him. – Hayao Miyazaki

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Friendship

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. – Ann Landers

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Friendship

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. – Virginia Woolf

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Friendship

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. – Sallust

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Friendship

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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. – Samuel Johnson

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Rhetoric

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority. – Chris Hayes

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Trust

The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond. – Edward McDonagh

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Driving

I think theres no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. – James Laughlin

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Poetry