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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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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. – Jane Austen

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Humility
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Jane Austen
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. – Jane Austen

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alone
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Jane Austen
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. – Plato

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Lifes pretty good, and why wouldnt it be? Im a pirate, after all. – Johnny Depp

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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin. – Zoe Saldana

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