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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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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen

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A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen

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

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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity. – Jos

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. – Jane Austen

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Trust in yourself. – Claudia Black

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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. – Hal Borland (1900–1978)

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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. – Eckhart Tolle

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