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• What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

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  Inspiring, Done, Mr Knightley

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.245, MobileReference

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• One word from you shall silence me forever.

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  Silence, Forever, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.260, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

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  People, Easy, Knows

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice - With Audio”, p.79, Oxford University Press

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• A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

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  Upset, Behavior, Bent

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• I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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  Happiness, Deserve

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• Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

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  Mr Knightley

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.56

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• Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

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  Earth, Want, Lasts

  "Pride and Prejudice". Tagline to the film, 2005.

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• One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

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  Inspiring, Men, Style

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.571, MobileReference

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• The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

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  Distance, Motive, Pride And Prejudice Pride

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

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  Father, Praying, Almighty

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• Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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  Inspiring, Optimistic, Sadness

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 48

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• None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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  Women, Equality, Water

  "Persuasion". Book by Jane Austen, www.theguardian.com. 1817.

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• Time did not compose her.

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  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.1410, Wildside Press LLC

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• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

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  Pride, Thinking, Vanity

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

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• I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

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  Moving, Believe, Pride

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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• You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

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  Judging, Being The Best

  Jane Austen (1816). “Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.107

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• The less said the better.

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  Norfolk, Said

  Jane Austen, Jane Kendall (1942). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.54, Dramatic Publishing

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• Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

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  Names, Giving, Want

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

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• Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

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  Important, Firsts

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.2168, Delphi Classics

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• Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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  Reflection, Companion, Self Talk

  Jane Austen (2014). “Mansfield Park”, p.74, Trajectory Inc

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• There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

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  Moments, Form, Mansfield Park

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• Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

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  Ignorance, Hands, Facts

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.361, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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  Silly, People, Done

  1816 Emma, ch.26.

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• Success supposes endeavour.

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  Endeavour

  Jane Austen (2010). “Emma: The Jane Austen Illustrated Edition”, p.12, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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