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The Watsons QUOTES

The Watsons QUOTES

1 " Poverty is a great evil; but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like. "

― Jane Austen , The Watsons

2 " If my opinions are wrong, I must correct them; if they are above my situation, I must endeavor to conceal them; "

― Jane Austen , The Watsons

3 " Emma; but you must think him agreeable. Can you lay your hand on your heart, and say you do not?
- Indeed I can, Both Hands; and spread to their widest extent. "

― Jane Austen , The Watsons

4 " ...the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book. "

― Jane Austen , The Watsons

5 " I shall retreat in as much secrecy as possible to the most remote corner of the house, where I shall order a barrel of oysters, and be famously snug. "

― Jane Austen , The Watsons