“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
"You've always been your own master. You've no idea what it is to have tempers to manage."
“I shall remember that next time you quarrel with me.”
“I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Fortune I do not want. Employment I do not want. Consequence I do not want.”
“I lay it down as a general rule, that if a woman doubts whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”
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