"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
― Jane Austen
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― Jane Austen
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- "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."
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- "People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are."― Mindy Kaling
- "It’s not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we’re not good enough, that we must live up to someone else’s standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am."― Elle Macpherson