Mansfield Park

Jane Austen, 1814

Jane Austen’s novel of Fanny Price, sent from a poor home in Portsmouth to be brought up by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, at Mansfield Park, where she grows up in the shadow of her four cousins.

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But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Chapter IIn context
- Marriage
- Money
“I pay very little regard,” said Mrs. Grant, “to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.”
Chapter IVIn context
- Marriage
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Chapter VIIIn context
- Character
- Forgiveness
We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
Chapter IXIn context
- Morality
“Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”
Chapter IXIn context
- Comedy
- Time
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
Chapter XXIIIn context
- Change
- Time
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory.
Chapter XXIIIn context
- Thinking
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Chapter XXIIIn context
- Happiness
- Money
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Money
“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”
Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Love
- Men
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Chapter XLIIIn context
- Wisdom
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Chapter XLVIIIIn context
- Writing

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