Quote by Jane Austen
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

Other quotes by Jane Austen

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen

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Reading
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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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Imagination
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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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best
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Other Quotes from
good
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. – John W. Gardner

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good

If its a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on. – Alfred Hitchcock

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good

I like a man whos good, but not too good – for the good die young, and I hate a dead one. – Mae West

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good

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway

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good

Random Quotes

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Philosophical

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. – Sitting Bull

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environmental

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell

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Future

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Nature