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Speak Quotes by Jane Austen
- I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
- Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world…
- Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely…
- We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be…
- He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of…
- I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of…
- I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would…
- Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody…
- What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on…
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- I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. — Jane Austen
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- I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak. — Stephen Baldwin
- It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. — Arthur Balfour
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- Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. — Daniel Barenboim