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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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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. – Jane Austen

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. – 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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. – English Proverb

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity. – Arabic Proverb

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You cant always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every managers got some sphere of autonomy. Dont pass the buck up the line. – Bob Anderson

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My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play. – Hugh Leonard

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The first novel I wrote was a monster – clocking in at 180,000 words – but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called The Gods First Make Mad. It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didnt let that put me off. – Wilbur Smith

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The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now. – David R. Brower

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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, “Economy,” Walden, 1854

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