Emma

by Jane Austen
England
16 Dec 1775 // 18 Jul 1817
Novelist

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On Pleasure:

Why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Emma

On Silence:

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Emma

On Friendship:

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Emma

On Vanity:

Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.

Emma

On Happiness:

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Emma

On Pleasure:

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Emma

On People:

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

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On Sensibility:

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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On Truth:

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

Emma

On Love:

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Emma
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