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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her
Emma, Volume 1, Chapter 1
Emma
“Há casos em que um conselho pode ser tanto bom quanto mau - dependerá dos acontecimentos.”
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
"Persuasion" (1817), Chapter XXIII
Ah! my poor dear child, the truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. It is a dreadful thing to have you forced to live there! so far off!-- and the air so bad!
Emma, Volume 1, Chapter 12
Emma
Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married. Miss Bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public favour; and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement to herself, or frighten those who might hate her into outward respect. She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness.
Emma, Volume 1, Chapter 3
Emma
Emma