Quote by Jane Austen
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. - Jane A

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. – Jane Austen

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A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. – Jane Austen

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. – Jane Austen

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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. – William Shakespeare

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I dont believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money. – Ben Stein

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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. – Charles Kingsley

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Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads…. – Joseph Epstein, Foreword to Fred R. Shapiro’s Yale Book of Quotations, 200

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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. – Angelique Arnauld

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If you have an important point to make, dont try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack. – Winston Churchill

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