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

Other quotes by Jane Austen

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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Neighbors
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. – Jane Austen

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great
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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. – Jane Austen

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Shyness
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If oppurtunity doesnt knock, build a door. – Milton Berle

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

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The back of one door is the face of another. – Proverb

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. – English Proverb

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I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things – in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished. – Jean Dujardin

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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso

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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber

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It is the growling man who lives a dogs life. – Coleman Cox

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