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Quote by Jane Austen
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the mos

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. – Jane Austen

Other quotes by Jane Austen

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen

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Men & Women
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Jane Austen
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. – Jane Austen

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Women
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Jane Austen
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. – Jane Austen

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Literary
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Jane Austen
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die. – Xun Zi

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Nature

Self-preservation, natures first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. – Andrew Marvell

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Nature

To him who, in the love of Nature, holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language. – William Cullen Bryant

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Nature

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Nature

Random Quotes

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is Gods message to him. Let him try and be a good thief. – Samuel Butler

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Crime

The tassel’s worth the hassle! – Author Unknown

Category:
Graduation

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. – Graham Greene

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Truth

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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Slavery