"I am excessively diverted." — Jane Austen
"I am excessively diverted."
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Jane Austen
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect…
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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More Diverted Quotes
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention…
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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
— Emile Durkheim
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
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...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some…
— Gilbert Burnet
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Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and…
— David A. Bednar
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One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings…
— Margaret Sanger
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Do not fear the challenges of life, but approach them patiently, with faith in God. He will reward your faith…
— Rex D. Pinegar
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Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely…
— James Madison
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For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It…
— Harry S. Truman
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The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop…
— Douglas Harding
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