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Jane Austen · 1811
A novel of manners following the Dashwood sisters—prudent Elinor and passionate Marianne—as they navigate love, loss, and social expectations in Regency England. Austen's wit and keen social observation explore the tension between sense and sensibility.
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Feeling without judgment courts ruin; judgment without feeling courts emptiness — the sisters together make one complete moral person.
self-and-identity
it was her determination to subdue it… she did not adopt the method so judiciously employed by Marianne… to augment and fix her sorrow
SSJ-RC-071'Dear, dear Norland!' said Marianne… 'when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere!'
SSJ-RC-020shame
in the acuteness of the disappointment which followed such an ecstasy of more than hope, she felt as if, till that moment, she had never suffered
SSJ-RC-139Marianne was in a silent agony, too much oppressed even for tears
SSJ-RC-122ambition-and-status
Mr. John Dashwood had then leisure to consider how much there might prudently be in his power to do for them
SSJ-RC-003you may guess, after all these expenses, how very far we must be from being rich, and how acceptable Mrs. Ferrars's kindness
SSJ-RC-156Illuminates
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