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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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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen

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Reading
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A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen

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Imagination
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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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Men & Women
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. – Barack Obama

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Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. – E.W. Howe

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. – Author Unknown

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. – Joseph Addison

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My mother said to me, If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. – Pablo Picasso

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There is even a happiness – that makes the heart afraid. – Thomas Hood

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The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. – Robert Collier

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Indifference creates an artificial peace. – Mason Cooley

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