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

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company. – Jane Austen

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good
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. – Jane Austen

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

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Men & Women
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Other Quotes from
City Life, Cities
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. – Fred A. Allen

Ive been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If youve seen one city slum youve seen them all. – Spiro T. Agnew

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. – Fred A. Allen

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