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Anne smiled and said, “My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is a company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what a call good company.”
“You are mistaken,” said he, gently, “that is not good company; that is the best.”Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Persuasion, ch. 16 (1818)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/austen-jane/75951/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #companions #conversation #goodcompany #interest #pleasantcompany #salon
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Anne smiled and said, “My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is a company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what a call good company.”
“You are mistaken,” said he, gently, “that is not good company; that is the best.”Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Persuasion, ch. 16 (1818)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/austen-jane/75951/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #companions #conversation #goodcompany #interest #pleasantcompany #salon
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Anne smiled and said, “My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is a company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what a call good company.”
“You are mistaken,” said he, gently, “that is not good company; that is the best.”Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Persuasion, ch. 16 (1818)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/austen-jane/75951/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #companions #conversation #goodcompany #interest #pleasantcompany #salon
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Anne smiled and said, “My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is a company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what a call good company.”
“You are mistaken,” said he, gently, “that is not good company; that is the best.”Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Persuasion, ch. 16 (1818)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/austen-jane/75951/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #companions #conversation #goodcompany #interest #pleasantcompany #salon
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Anne smiled and said, “My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is a company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what a call good company.”
“You are mistaken,” said he, gently, “that is not good company; that is the best.”Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Persuasion, ch. 16 (1818)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/austen-jane/75951/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #companions #conversation #goodcompany #interest #pleasantcompany #salon
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A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1892), “Worth While,” st. 1, An Erring Woman’s LoveSourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #badfortune #badluck #disaster #goodfortune #goodluck #pleasantcompany #problems #smile #trouble
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A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1892), “Worth While,” st. 1, An Erring Woman’s LoveSourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #badfortune #badluck #disaster #goodfortune #goodluck #pleasantcompany #problems #smile #trouble
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A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1892), “Worth While,” st. 1, An Erring Woman’s LoveSourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #badfortune #badluck #disaster #goodfortune #goodluck #pleasantcompany #problems #smile #trouble
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A quotation from Omar Khayyam:
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A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness —
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/3021/#quote #quotes #quotation #beloved #companion #company #ease #love #paradise #perspective #picnic #pleasantcompany #reading #wealth #wilderness #wine
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A quotation from Omar Khayyam:
«
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness —
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/3021/#quote #quotes #quotation #beloved #companion #company #ease #love #paradise #perspective #picnic #pleasantcompany #reading #wealth #wilderness #wine
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A quotation from Omar Khayyam:
«
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness —
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/3021/#quote #quotes #quotation #beloved #companion #company #ease #love #paradise #perspective #picnic #pleasantcompany #reading #wealth #wilderness #wine