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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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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. – Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
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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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At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead. – Princess of Wales Diana

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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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A man surprised is half beaten. – Thomas Fuller

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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity. – Jos

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. – William Wordsworth

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[P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. – Sigmund Freud, quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations by Alan L. Mackay

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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. – Calvin Coolidge

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Where is the good in goodbye? – Meredith Willson, The Music Man (Thanks, Thomas)

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