No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared.
Jane Austen · The narrator's mock serious maxim after Catherine Morland first dances with Henry Tilney, in Northanger Abbey, chapter 3.
Jane Austen · The narrator's mock serious maxim after Catherine Morland first dances with Henry Tilney, in Northanger Abbey, chapter 3.
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Jane Austen · Anne Elliot remembering how perfectly she and Captain Wentworth once suited each other, a line couples now borrow for readings.
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Jane Austen · Laura's account of meeting Edward in the comic novel Austen wrote at fourteen, which mocks the swooning heroines of her day; the line is now quoted with a straight face.
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