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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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"Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric."

"Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism."

"All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth."

"Miss Austen's novels - seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer - is marriageableness."

"There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead if the kingdom gospel."

"Don't criticize what you can't understand."

"A "racist" thinks themselves better than other races. An "elitist" thinks they are better than everyone."

"Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion."

"If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one."

"I never have sympathy for those that have been blinded by the path of God. You chose to walk into the light, not realizing that you were already chained within the darkness. When a hand was offered to you, you looked up into the sky, and bowed your head in blind obedience, when you should have been creating a new possibility. Nothing is more pathetic than to see ignorance in action. Nothing is more laughable than to see the obedient ask an illusion for more power to stay frivolously obedient. I never have sympathy for those that have been blinded by the path of God. I only have sympathy for the Devil..."
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"I cannot say much for this Monarch's Sense-Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I suppose you know all about the Wars between him and the Duke of York who was on the right side; if you do not, you had better read some other History, for I shall not be very difuse in this, meaning by it only to vent my spleen against, and show my Hatred to all those people whose parties or principles do not suit with mine, and not to give information."

"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time, but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."

"Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere- and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves."

"That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit."

"Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you,and by those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervaluethe warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow-creatures! I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachmentand constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you capableof everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equalto every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance,so long as-if I may be allowed the expression-so long as you havean object. I mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one;you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existenceor when hope is gone."

"I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong."
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