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- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
- Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003
- People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.
- Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003
- Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.
- Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question 55, 10-03-07
- No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
- Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
- The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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