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Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
Pride and Prejudice
What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
Northanger Abbey
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
Mansfield Park
I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.
Persuasion
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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