Quote by Jane Austen
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is som

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. – Jane Austen

Other quotes by Jane Austen

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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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. – Jane Austen

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Women
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. – Jane Austen

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Other Quotes from
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. – Fred A. Allen

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. Its the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. – Jean Baudrillard

I found Rome brick, I left it marble. – Caesar Augustus

In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future – Daniel J. Boorstin

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The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad. – Thomas Dolby

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I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe youve already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I dont know. – Roger Federer

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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