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Favorite Austen Quotes

"If there is anything disagreeable men are sure to get out of it."- Persuasion
"You are too sensible a girl... to fall in love merely because you have been warned against it. " - Pride and Prejudice
"A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked."- Emma
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not the pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Northanger Abbey
"A fondness for reading... must be an education in itself"- Mansfield Park
"Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it." - Sense and Sensibility
"I hate to hear you talking so, like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth waters all our days." - Persuasion
"For what do we live but to make sport of our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"- Pride and Prejudice