July 18 Quotes

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"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope."

-- Jane Austen

"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope."

-- Jane Austen

"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."

-- Jane Austen

"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."

-- Jane Austen

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."

-- Jane Austen

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."

-- Jane Austen

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."

-- Jane Austen

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."

-- Jane Austen

"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."

-- Jane Austen

"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."

-- Jane Austen

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

-- Jane Austen

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

-- Jane Austen

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

-- Jane Austen

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

-- Jane Austen

"I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."

-- Jane Austen

"I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."

-- Jane Austen

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

-- Jane Austen

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

-- Jane Austen

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

-- Jane Austen

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

-- Jane Austen

"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

"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

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows..."

-- Ernest Hemingway