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"She thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."
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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."
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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."
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"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."
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"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."
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"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
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"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
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"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!"
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"But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable. How were people, at that rate, to be understood?"
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"Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it."
Romance
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
Hope
"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."
Life
"She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy."
Emotion
"Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth."
Love
"Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished."
Family
"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
Music
"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."
Humor
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