New Year’s Resolutions

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason. Pride and Prejudice

If you are ever so forward and clever…you should always be modest; for, much as you know already, there is a great deal more for you to learn. Mansfield Park

You must be the best judge of your own happiness. Emma

If my opinions are wrong, I must correct them. The Watsons

I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others – of resigning my own judgment in deference to those to whom I owe no duty and for whom I feel no respect. Lady Susan

To be guided by second-hand conjecture is pitiful. Northanger Abbey

Keep your breath to cool your porridge. Pride and Prejudice

You should never fret about trifles. Northanger Abbey

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. Emma

It is the bounden duty of the capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them. Sanditon

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. Emma

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Sense and Sensibility

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. Persuasion

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