Jane Austen quote about self from Mansfield Park - We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
 Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814). copy citation

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Author Jane Austen
Source Mansfield Park
Topic self guide
Date 1814
Language English
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«I advise! You know very well what is right.»
«Yes. When you give me your opinion, I always know what is right. Your judgment is my rule of right.»
«Oh, no! do not say so. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Good-bye; I wish you a pleasant journey to-morrow.»
«Is there nothing I can do for you in town?»
«Nothing; I am much obliged to you.»
«Have you no message for anybody?»
«My love to your sister, if you please; and when you see my cousin, my cousin Edmund, I wish you would be so good as to say that I suppose I shall soon hear from him.»” source

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