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Foolish Quotes by Jane Austen
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
- You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first…
- Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.
- Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
- But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being…
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
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- There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a… — Mark Twain
- Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. — Mark Twain
- Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish. — Albert Einstein
- O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the… — Walt Whitman