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- Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
- Bayard Taylor
- I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Interview, 1995
- A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- 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
- Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.
- Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
- Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
- Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
- 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
- I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - ), Lecture in Salt Lake City, Utah, 03-04-08
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