"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
-Jane Austen
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"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.“
-Jane Austen
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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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"Respect for right conduct is felt by every body."
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"I have a bit of a rebellious nature."
-John Cusack
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"I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop."
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"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
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"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
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