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Jane Austen
: Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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A man surprised is half beaten.
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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Emotion, pleasure and challenge.
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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