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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 3.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 3.

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He who knows most, knows best how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson, Thomas. Thomas Jefferson’s Batture Pamphlet. 25 Feb. 1812.

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One never goes so far as when one doesn't know
where one is going.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter. 3 Nov. 1812.

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Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

William Hazlitt

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Hazlitt, William. "Hamlet." Characters of Shakespear's Plays. London: Rowland Hunter and Charles Ollier and James Ollier, 1817.

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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 5.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 5.

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 15.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 15.

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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

Persuasion

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Austen, Jane. Persuasion. London: John Murray, 1818, ch. 13.

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Austen, Jane. Persuasion. Penguin, 2003, ch. 13.

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The sooner every party breaks up, the better.

Emma

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Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 2, London: John Murray, 1816, ch. 7.

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Austen, Jane. Emma, edited by Fiona Stafford. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7.

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 16.

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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Quoted in Histoire de I'Ambassade dans le grand-duche de Varsovie en 1812 [History of the Embassy in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw in 1812], written by M. de Pradt. Paris: Pilet, 1815.

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Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing.

Lord Byron

Don Juan

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Murray, 1819, canto 2, st. 199.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 199.

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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 22.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 22.

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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 18.

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.