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My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.


Jane Pauley

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JANE JACOBS You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful ...
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JANE HARRISON My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
JANE FONDA I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
JANE WAGNER You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spe...
JANE GOODSELL Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the...
JANE ROBERTS Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ...
JANE HOWARD From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel...
JANE ADDAMS One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co...
JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s...
JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
JANE AUSTEN The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and...
JANE ADDAMS One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
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.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN