Tea Rose

Dec. 25th, 2011 11:59 pm
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Theme: Quotations
1. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
2. A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
3. A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
4. An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
5. Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
6. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
7. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
8. From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
9. General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
10. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
11. How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.
12. Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
13. I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
14. I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
15. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
16. If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
17. If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
18. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
19. Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
20. Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
21. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story.
22. My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation.
23. My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
24. Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
25. Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
26. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
27. We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
28. What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
29. Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone.
30. Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.


from the writings of Jane Austen
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