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“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
― Jane Austen, Love and Freindship

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Time will explain.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Conventionality is not morality.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'

- Jane Eyre”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Your will shall decide your destiny.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre