A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

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Topic

Money and happiness Wealth

Speaker

Mary Crawford

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Mansfield Park

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Vol. 2, London: Thomas Egerton, 1814, ch. 22.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 22.

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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Forgiveness
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Mr. Bennet

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Jane Austen
Source
Pride and Prejudice
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Irony
Language
English
Time
1813 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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

Another quote from the 1810s

The man of talent is like the marksman who hits a mark the others cannot hit; the man of genius is like the marksman who hits a mark they cannot even see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Idea

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Talent Genius

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Source
The World as Will and Idea
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1819 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung [The World as Will and Imagination]. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1819.

Current Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Representation, edited by Christopher Janaway, translated by Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Jesus

Matthew 6:24

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Priorities Love of money Wealth Sermon on the Mount
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Jesus
Source
Gospel of Matthew The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Greek
Time
60 60s 1st century
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 6:24).