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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a goo

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. – Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. – Jane Austen

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He that does good to another does good also to himself. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. – Albert Einstein

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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. – Henry Ward Beecher

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