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“We would never ask a hearing student to comprehend a lecture in Mandarin if he or she did not have proficiency in the language. Nevertheless, we ask this feat of deaf children everyday.”
― Christine Monikowski

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“The highest result of education is tolerance”
― Helen Keller

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement ”
― Helen Keller

“So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”
― Helen Keller

“The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.”
― Helen Keller

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
― Jane Austen

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
― Jane Austen

“It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice