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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Jane Austen
"It is always the silly things that change our lives."
Jane Austen
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
Jane Austen
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
Jane Austen
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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Jane Austen
"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."
Jane Austen
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"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures."
Jane Austen
"We are all fools in love."
Jane Austen
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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
Jane Austen
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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."
Jane Austen
"I can resist everything except temptation."
Oscar Wilde
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
Oscar Wilde
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde
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"True love is always a fairy tale."
Oscar Wilde
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"I refuse to explain anything."
Oscar Wilde
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"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
Oscar Wilde
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your existence is an act of rebellion."
Oscar Wilde
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
Oscar Wilde
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