Jane Austen quote about sorrow from Sense and Sensibility - how easy for those, who have no sorrow of their own to talk of exertion!
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how easy for those, who have no sorrow of their own to talk of exertion!
 Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811). copy citation

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Author Jane Austen
Source Sense and Sensibility
Topic sorrow exertion
Date 1811
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21839/21839-h/21839-h.htm

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“Think of your mother; think of her misery while you suffer: for her sake you must exert yourself."
"I cannot, I cannot," cried Marianne; "leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! but do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those, who have no sorrow of their own to talk of exertion! Happy, happy Elinor, you cannot have an idea of what I suffer."
"Do you call me happy, Marianne? Ah! if you knew!—And can you believe me to be so, while I see you so wretched!"
"Forgive me, forgive me," throwing her arms round her sister's neck; "I know you feel for me; I know what a heart you have; but yet you are—you must be happy; Edward loves you—what, oh what, can do away such happiness as that?"” source

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