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

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. – Jane Austen

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great
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen

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Sympathy
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. – Jane Austen

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Literary
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Other Quotes from
City Life, Cities
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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

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

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast. – Italian Proverb

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. – Alan Brien

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Theres intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. – Michael Ignatieff

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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. – Maya Angelou

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Love

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. – Carl Sandburg

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Poetry

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. – Diogenes

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good