Jane Austen
Novelist
"I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him."
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Emma
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Jane Austen
Novelist
"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley"
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
"She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage."
Jane Austen
Novelist
"My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?"
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