Quote by Jane Austen
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, o

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. – 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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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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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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I think theres been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. – Dave Davies

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An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest, “not if you did not know.” “Then why,” asked the Inuit earnestly, “did you tell me?” – Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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It was part of your religion to hate the British. – Rebecca Harding Davis

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Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion. – John Cale

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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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Television is democracy at its ugliest. – Paddy Chayefsky

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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. – Henry David Thoreau

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Punctuality is the soul of business. – Thomas C. Haliburton

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