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Quote by Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. – Jane Austen

Other quotes by Jane Austen

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;– it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. – Jane Austen

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Love :: Relationships
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Jane Austen
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. – Jane Austen

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Nature
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Jane Austen
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen

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Other Quotes from
Pleasure
category

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. – Minna Antrim

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Pleasure

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. – Thomas Carlyle

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Pleasure

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Pleasure

Hark ye of little pleasure! See your way clearly as your destiny reveals its truth! Seek not completion lest your touch be forever dismissed! – My wordfriend, the always conversationally frisky Tim Irwin, 2014

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Pleasure

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