“ We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. ”
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1816). copy citation
| Author | Jane Austen |
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| Source | Persuasion |
| Topic | occupation change |
| Date | 1816 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/105/105-h/105-h.htm |
Context
“Captain Harville smiled, as much as to say, "Do you claim that for your sex?" and she answered the question, smiling also, "Yes. We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. "Granting your assertion that the world does all this so soon for men (which, however, I do not think I shall grant) , it does not apply to Benwick. He has not been forced upon any exertion. The peace turned him on shore at the very moment, and he has been living with us, in our little family circle, ever since."
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