I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

Jane Austen
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  2. I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. - Thomas Keller

  3. All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions - Leonardo Da Vinci

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More Quotes By Jane Austen
  1. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

  2. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

  3. In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  4. The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

  5. I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

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