“ We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. ”
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814). copy citation
| Author | Jane Austen |
|---|---|
| Source | Mansfield Park |
| Topic | self guide |
| Date | 1814 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/141/141-h/141-h.htm |
Context
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«I advise! You know very well what is right.»
«Yes. When you give me your opinion, I always know what is right. Your judgment is my rule of right.»
«Oh, no! do not say so. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Good-bye; I wish you a pleasant journey to-morrow.»
«Is there nothing I can do for you in town?»
«Nothing; I am much obliged to you.»
«Have you no message for anybody?»
«My love to your sister, if you please; and when you see my cousin, my cousin Edmund, I wish you would be so good as to say that I suppose I shall soon hear from him.»” source
«I advise! You know very well what is right.»
«Yes. When you give me your opinion, I always know what is right. Your judgment is my rule of right.»
«Oh, no! do not say so. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Good-bye; I wish you a pleasant journey to-morrow.»
«Is there nothing I can do for you in town?»
«Nothing; I am much obliged to you.»
«Have you no message for anybody?»
«My love to your sister, if you please; and when you see my cousin, my cousin Edmund, I wish you would be so good as to say that I suppose I shall soon hear from him.»” source
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