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Quote by Jane Austen
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interest

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. – Jane Austen

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable. – Jane Austen

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen

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Nature, in her blind search for life, has filled every possible cranny of the earth with some sort of fantastic creature. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo

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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic. – Barack Obama

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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. – Bertrand Russell

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