Elizabeth Bennett famous quotes
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I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.
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We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.
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Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
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One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
-- Elizabeth Bennett
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.
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The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
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Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
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