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Quote by Jane Austen
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anythin

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. – Jane Austen

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. . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study? – Jane Austen

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Flattery
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Jane Austen
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. – Jane Austen

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Women
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Jane Austen
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. – Jane Austen

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Marriage
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Against change of fortune set a brave heart. – Proverb

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Behind every great fortune there is a crime. – Honore de Balzac

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Ones best fortune, or, their worst is their spouse. – Proverb

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Fortune

There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us. – Proverb

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Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that youre the one in the green dress. – Lois Wyse

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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. – Thomas Carlyle

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Most mens anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. – Edward F. Halifax

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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?… Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. – Alfred Whitney Griswold

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