Quotes
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I am unaware of anyone ... seriously suggesting ... biological features of the region's peoples that might have contributed.
Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)
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Guns, Germs And Steel
History, Science
The resulting food surpluses ... were a prerequisite for the development of ... innovative societies.
Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)
•
Guns, Germs And Steel
History, Science
Literacy made the Spaniards heirs to a huge body of knowledge about human behavior and history.
Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)
•
Guns, Germs And Steel
History, Science
Why is that you white people developed so much cargo ... but we black people had little cargo?
Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)
•
Guns, Germs And Steel
History, Science
The pride of any mother is to give birth to a responsible and successful child.
Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice
NOVEL
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice
NOVEL
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice
NOVEL
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice
NOVEL
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice
NOVEL
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
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Pride and Prejudice
NOVEL
I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.
Jane Austen
•
Persuasion
NOVEL
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
Jane Austen
•
Persuasion
NOVEL
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
Jane Austen
•
Persuasion
NOVEL
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen
•
Persuasion
NOVEL
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid
Jane Austen
•
Northanger Abbey
NOVEL
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey
NOVEL
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.
Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey
NOVEL
...from politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey
NOVEL
Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?
Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey
NOVEL
A woman especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey
NOVEL