Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen
England
16 Dec 1775 // 18 Jul 1817
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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

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There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

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But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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Everybody likes to go their own way � to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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