| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |  |
| . . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all. | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |  |
| "But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge." | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |  |
| " . . . our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for . . . " | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |  |
| To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |  |
| . . . from politics, it was an easy step to silence. | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |  |