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Mansfield Park quotes

Jane Austen

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“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“I was quiet, but I was not blind.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without farther expense to anybody.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“What strange creatures brothers are!” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“Let us have the luxury of silence.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“He knew her to be clever, to have a quick apprehension as well as good sense, and a fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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