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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. Mencken
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
H. L. Mencken
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken
Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
Taylor Swift
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
William Blake
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
J. D. Salinger
When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
George Washington Carver
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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