Jane Austen Quotes
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound...
Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
Patricia Kaas
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
Maajid Nawaz
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'
John Henrik Clarke
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
Karlie Kloss
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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Philip Sidney
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The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
Maynard Ferguson
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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound...
Jane Austen