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Quote by Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroy

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. – 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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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad. – Proverb

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Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime. – Lucy Benington

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered. – Proverb

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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. – Matthew Arnold

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