“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Variant: It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...
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Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne as they come of age. They have an older half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret, 13.
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Variant: Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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“…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…”
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“Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present”
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Variant: To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
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“But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?”
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“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”
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“.. that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself”
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“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood”
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“Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”
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“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
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