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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.


Jane Austen

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JANE AUSTEN Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.”
MICHEL FABER Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want.
JEFFREY FRY Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of...
L. M. MONTGOMERY You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER Jealousy and possessiveness seems to be the hallmark of love
SOTONYE ANGA As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
UNKNOWN If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.
GERARD DEPARDIEU There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there...
TED STEVENS there are as many opinions as there are men.
HELEN KELLER A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
JERRY SEINFELD No matter where you go - there you are
CONFUCIUS Jane Austen’s world is a unique wedge of history, immortalized by her wonderful books. It is ironi...
LESLEY-ANNE MCLEOD Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
HANIEL LONG I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are...
MARY S. CALDERONE I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are...
DR. MARY S. CALDERONE For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Why not learn to enjoy the little things -- there are so many of them.
HERMAN CAIN There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without significatio...
BIBLE So long as there are men there will be wars. So long as there are men there will be wars.
ALBERT EINSTEIN There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.
LEMONY SNICKET If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There are a lot of men of the same age in the same situation, so there will always be encounters to ...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers ...
DAPHNE KOLLER There are men who wants only the woman; such are tagged, 'real men', and there are ones who want onl...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession o...
BRUCE FEIRSTEIN I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in ...
BETTY WILLIAMS There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.
LAUREN BEUKES The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are peopl...
C.S. LEWIS It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the cr...
SUSANNA KAYSEN There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in th...
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FRANCES O'CONNOR Be a master of yourself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Aliens have been here for millennium.
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ANTHONY T. HINCKS The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very pas...
CHERIE BLAIR For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
LAURA SAN GIACOMO There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRé GIDE If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in t...
ANDY GROVE I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people i...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Miss Barry was a kindred spirit after all," Anne confided to Marilla, "You wouldn't think so to look...
L.M. MONTGOMERY You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to ge...
AARON NEVILLE There are many in the world Who are dying for a piece of bread, But there are many more dying for a ...
MOTHER TERESA Mountains have a decent influence on men. I have never met along the trails of the high mountains a ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, ma...
LEMONY SNICKET There are many communities surrounding West Hartford that are dealing with this same issue and I thi...
BARBARA CARPENTER Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool....
ELIZABETH ASTON As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life ther...
BUDDHA The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them
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THOMAS HARRIS There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little l...
MOTHER TERESA There are so many more interesting things to think about than whether Ida Lupino or Jane Wyman got t...
ALEXIS SMITH There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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J.K. ROWLING No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other thi...
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CRAIG GROESCHEL There are so many people whose minds do not belong to them. There are so many people whose thoughts ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive ...
ALISON ELLIOTT So long as there are men there will be wars
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LEO CHAN There are so many babies here, ... Take a look, I want everyone in the world to see. ... Look in the...
GERALDO RIVERA The problem with security standards is that there are so many of them.
JOE DUFFY There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, bu...
CHARLES SPURGEON Men can cheat because there are so many women willing to give themselves to a man who doesn’t belo...
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TOM STOPPARD There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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SHANNON L. ALDER There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon...
WILLIAM ROTSLER There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon...
DAVID TYSON GENTRY There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
CORITA KENT I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are...
LEO TOLSTOY ...There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
LEMONY SNICKET There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
LEMONY SNICKET In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
GEORGE ELIOT Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.
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MARK ROBERTS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the in...
HELEN KELLER Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM World is so beautiful, but alas! There are so many assholes.
M.F. MOONZAJER Women are men without money.
PAUL SAMUELSON There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

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And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.
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JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...
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JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
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JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
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JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ...
JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ...
JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ...
JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted.
JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...
JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already.
JANE AUSTEN It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
JANE AUSTEN