“He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.”
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Mansfield Park; (Pan classics)
Fanny Price is born to a poor family, but is sent to her mother's rich relations to be brought up with her cousins. There she is treated as an inferior by all except her cousin Edmund, whose kindness towards her earns him her steadfast love. Fanny is quiet and obedient and does not come into her own until her elder cousins leave the estate following a scandalous play put on in their father's absence. Fanny's loyalty and love is tested by the beautiful Crawford siblings. But their essentially weak natures and morals show them for what they really are, and allow Fanny to gain the one thing she truly desires.
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Jane Austen
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“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
“But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.”
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
“Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.”
“I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?”
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I se...”
“These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…”
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”