Jane Austen quote about emotions from Sense and Sensibility - She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
 Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811). copy citation

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“She had an excellent heart; her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.
Marianne's abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor's. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great.
Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished.” source

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