299 – “I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.”

–Edward Ferrars in Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility

Quote Number:  841

Source: Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Richard Bentley: London. 1833. Pg 77. Online here

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