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I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.


Jane Goodall

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JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh...
JANE JACOBS A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...
JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...
JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces...
JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, ...
JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...
JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ...
JANE JOHNSON We are all fools in love
JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ...
JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor...
JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
JANE AUSTEN