Jane Austen was way ahead of her time. Happy 239th birthday to one of the greatest English novelists in history!
1. "I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."
–Sense and Sensibility
2. "We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."
–Mansfield Park
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4. "There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
–Emma
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