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Quote by Jane Austen
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable. – Jane Austen

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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen

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Sympathy
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Jane Austen
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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;– it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. – Jane Austen

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Love :: Relationships
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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity. – Jos

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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A man surprised is half beaten. – Thomas Fuller

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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us. – Thomas Merton

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Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but thats because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. – Richard Dawkins

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