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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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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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Jane Austen
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen

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You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. – Laurence J. Peter

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Henry Adams

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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. – Petrarch

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington

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I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. – Amy Waldman

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I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didnt want to be a child. – Maurice Sendak

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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him “father.” – Will Rogers

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