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I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.


Jane Yolen

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Make a place to sit down.
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"Of a fine, stout, ...
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JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh...
JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether...
JANE AUSTEN When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
JANE FONDA Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso...
JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear...
JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of...
JANE BLALOCK It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
JANE AUSTEN It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe...
JANE AUSTEN