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Quotes on Wit

“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
— Emma, Chapter 34
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
— Juvenilia — Catharine, or the Bower
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
— Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 6
“Till this moment, I never knew myself.”
— Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 36
“Obstinate, headstrong girl!”
— Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 56
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. The pen has been in their hands.”
— Persuasion, Chapter 23
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
— Mansfield Park, Chapter 7
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
— Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 1
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