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      • In her work, Austen is often critical of the assumptions and prejudices of upper-class England. She distinguishes between internal merit (goodness of person) and external merit (rank and possessions). Though she frequently satirizes snobs, she also pokes fun at the poor breeding and misbehavior of those lower on the social scale.
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    • “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.
    • “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.
    • “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    • “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
    • The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Northanger Abbey.
    • Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Mansfield Park.
    • Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Mansfield Park.
    • An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
    • Sense and Sensibility Quotes. “Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
    • Pride and Prejudice Quotes. “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    • Mansfield Park Quotes. “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.” “Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.” “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
    • Emma Quotes. “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ” “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
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