"To always be loved one must ever be agreeable."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on love   

"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on advice
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"People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on education   

"Life is too short for a long story."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on anecdotes
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"I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on nature   

"The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on knowledge   

"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."

Bancroft, George on beauty
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"It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms. Autumns reward western Kansas for the evils at the remaining seasons impose: winter's rough Colorado winds and hip-high, sheep slaughtering snows; the slushes and the strange land fogs of spring; and summer, when even crows seek the puny shade, and the tawny infinitude of wheatstalks bristle, blaze. "

Capote, Truman on ecstasy   

"There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself."

Esra, Abraham Ibn on loneliness
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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert on loneliness
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"Love poems are always cliche to me but not to the person it’s for."

Dye, James on love
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"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

Austen, Jane on ridicule   

"There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person."

Austen, Jane on reserve
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Austen, Jane on bachelor
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

Austen, Jane on pleasure   

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"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."

Austen, Jane on places   

"Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied."

Austen, Jane on pity
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"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."

Austen, Jane on optimism   

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"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation."

Austen, Jane on opportunity
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"Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct."

Austen, Jane on opinions   

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"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Austen, Jane on neighbors
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"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies."

Austen, Jane on neighbors
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"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."

Austen, Jane on nature
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"From politics it was an easy step to silence."

Austen, Jane on silence
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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable."

Austen, Jane on surprises
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"What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."

Austen, Jane on weather   

"“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” "

Mark Twain on religion
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"Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car."

Laurence J. Peter on religion   

"Affection is dezirable, but money is absolutly undispensable."

Austen, Jane on money   

"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt -- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more."

Austen, Jane on dance and dancing
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"Those who do not complain are never pitied."

Austen, Jane on complaints and complaining
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"One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound."

Austen, Jane on life   

"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality."

Austen, Jane on life   

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Austen, Jane on churches   

"It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine."

Austen, Jane on churches   

"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."

Austen, Jane on work
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"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."

Austen, Jane on women
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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

Austen, Jane on women
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"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."

Austen, Jane on money
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