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- I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.
- Kazuo Inamori
- I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
- Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- 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
- One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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