I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane AustenRead
It's such a happiness when good people get together.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the joy that comes from the companionship of good people.
Jane Austen expresses the idea that there is a special type of happiness that arises when individuals of good character and virtue come together. This gathering often enhances one's sense of joy and belonging, emphasizing the importance of quality relationships in life.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of friendship at a community event.
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.
He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; _x000D_ Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
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