Jane Austen Quotes
One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
E. B. White
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Malcolm Forbes
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Wilson
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
Rajneesh
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
Ed Asner
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin
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I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been very few times in my life where I've felt down about the way I look or the way I feel.
Zendaya
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
Jane Austen