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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One mans ways may be as good as anothers, but we all like our own best. – Jane Austen

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best
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. – Jane Austen

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Education
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. – Jane Austen

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The best time to make friends is before you need them. – Ethel Barrymore

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Friendship is two-sided. It isnt a friend just because someones doing something nice for you. Thats a nice person. Theres friendship when you do for each other. Its like marriage – its two-sided. – John Wooden

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Friendship

It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Friendship

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Rather than saying, My checking account is a wreck, change it to I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook. – Suze Orman

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Change

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. – Thomas Carlyle

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History

Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp. Thou didst create clay, but I made the cup. Thou didst create the deserts, mountains and forests, I produced the orchards, gardens and groves. It is I who made the glass out of stone, and it is I who turn a poison into an antidote. – Sir Muhammad Iqbal

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Creation

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, dont come along very often. – Francesca Annis

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Experience