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

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. – Jane Austen

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Education
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company. – Jane Austen

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good
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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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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. – William Channing

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I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mamas boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another. – Ayelet Waldman

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Nature

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. – Auguste Rodin

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Nature

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. – Xun Zi

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Nature

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids games instead of my own. Im excited to start the next chapter of my life. – Drew Bledsoe

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Health

The key to making money is to stay invested. – Suze Orman

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Money

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. – John Lancaster Spalding

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Philosophical