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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. ↗

— Jane Austen

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. ↗

— Jane Austen

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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! ↗

— Jane Austen

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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. ↗

— Alfred Austin

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I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980. ↗

— Tracy Austin

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