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Quote by Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. - Jane Austen

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. – Jane Austen

Other quotes by Jane Austen

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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Imagination
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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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Beauty
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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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Clothing
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Jane Austen
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Other Quotes from
Optimism
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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. – Ambrose Bierce

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Optimism

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim

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Optimism

Pessimists—Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust. – Paul Chatfield

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Optimism

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. – George F. Will, The Leveling Wind

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Optimism

Random Quotes

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior. – Gary Bauer

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Marriage

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. Its blasphemy. – Jonathan Kozol

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Christmas

Unless youre living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, theres no point in being gloomy. Weve spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we dont really need. Weve stopped using our imaginations. – Jarvis Cocker

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diet

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. – Plato

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Time