"To take a dislike to a young..." - Quote by Jane Austen
To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind
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“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”
“One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.”
“Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”
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“Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.”
“Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.”
“When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.”
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“Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.”
“If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.”
“Bigotry is the sacred disease.”