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The folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!... Five dull hours in another man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again to-morrow... Four horses and four servants taken out for nothing but to convey five idle, shivering creatures into colder rooms and worse company than they might have had at home.

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Emma

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Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1816, ch. 13.

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Austen, Jane. Emma, edited by Fiona Stafford. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 13.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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Austen, Jane. Letter to Cassandra Austen. 24 Dec. 1798.

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Austen, Jane. Letters of Jane Austen, edited by Lord Brabourne. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1816, ch. 9.

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Austen, Jane. Emma, edited by Fiona Stafford. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 9.

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Why not seize the pleasure at once?-How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 2, London: John Murray, 1815, ch. 30.

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Austen, Jane. Emma, edited by Fiona Stafford. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 30.

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If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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Austen, Jane. "Catharine, or, The Bower." Volume the Third. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1951.

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Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere, one is intimate with him by instinct.

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Mansfield Park

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Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1814, ch. 34.

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Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 34.

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