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Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

  • claudzbaloiihas quoted8 years ago
    to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
  • evshirninahas quoted8 years ago
    Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
    She expected from other people the same opinions and feelings as her own, and she judged of their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.
  • VEDANSHI AWASTHIhas quoted3 years ago
    Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract, to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led to imprudence. She had an excellent heart;—her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.
  • VEDANSHI AWASTHIhas quoted3 years ago
    that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quoted4 years ago
    they who suffer little may be proud and independent as they like—may resist insult, or return mortification—but I cannot. I must feel—I must be wretched—and they are welcome to enjoy the consciousness of it that can."
  • b4361353501has quoted3 years ago
    to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
  • Asiyat Bostanovahas quoted3 years ago
    Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
  • b5576167468has quoted4 years ago
    that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

    To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quoted4 years ago
    She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately
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