Jane Austen Quotes
...the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
Jane Austen
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I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
Little Richard
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
Ben Harper
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
Octave Mirbeau
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
Andriy Shevchenko
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True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
Lester B. Pearson
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.
Vincent Van Gogh
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
Alexandre Dumas
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
Seneca the Younger
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Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.
Socrates
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I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
Hector Elizondo
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...the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
Jane Austen
