Jane Austen quote about weakness from Emma - Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
 Jane Austen, Emma (1815). copy citation

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Author Jane Austen
Source Emma
Topic weakness vanity mischief
Date 1815
Language English
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“«I have always thought it a very foolish intimacy,» said Mr. Knightley presently, «though I have kept my thoughts to myself; but I now perceive that it will be a very unfortunate one for Harriet. You will puff her up with such ideas of her own beauty, and of what she has a claim to, that, in a little while, nobody within her reach will be good enough for her. Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. Nothing so easy as for a young lady to raise her expectations too high. Miss Harriet Smith may not find offers of marriage flow in so fast, though she is a very pretty girl. Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.” source

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