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Quote by Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a gir

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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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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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. – Jane Austen

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One mans ways may be as good as anothers, but we all like our own best. – Jane Austen

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Beauty is only skin deep. – Thomas Overbury

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Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. – David Byrne

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see. – Vera Brittain

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Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. – Camille Paglia

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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, I release the need for this in my life. – Wayne Dyer

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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. – Jane Austen

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We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. – Stacia Tauscher

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His Highness playing at shuttle-cock with one far taller than himself, and hitting him by chance with the shuttle-cock upon the forehead — “this is,” quoth he, “the encounter of David with Goliath.” – Prince Henry, of his father, James the First

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