| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| "But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge." | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |  |
| " . . . our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for . . . " | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |  |
| To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |  |
| . . . from politics, it was an easy step to silence. | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |  |
| "What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!" | Jane Austen | Persuasion |  |
| "One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best." | Jane Austen | Persuasion |  |
| How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! | Jane Austen | Persuasion |  |
| "Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." | Jane Austen | Persuasion |  |
| . . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them. | Jane Austen | Persuasion |  |
| "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance." | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |