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The Week… Water drops with Jane Austen

May 10, 2010 by · 3 comments

Wee Westie Water Drop
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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

triplet of water drops
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Everybody likes to go their own way – to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Spider Web Water Drops
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

When Water Drops Collide
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Water Drop V
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

water drops
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Water Drop by Photos8
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Air menitik - Water Drop
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

after rain

General benevolence, but not general friendship,
made a man what he ought to be.

green Water drop by Photos8
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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