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- Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
- Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
- No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
- Meg Cabot, (Jenny Carroll), Sanctuary, 2002
- One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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