Emma Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject	Source
1	It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made --when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt --it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.	Dance	Emma
2	One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.	Understanding	Emma
3	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. (Ch. 1)	Existence	Emma
4	It's such a happiness when good people get together—and they always do. (Ch. 3)	Happiness	Emma
5	I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. (Ch. 7)	Happiness	Emma
6	I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.—It depends upon the character of those who han	Wickedness	Emma
7	One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. (Ch. 9)	Pleasure	Emma
8	There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. (Ch. 11)	Charity	Emma
9	If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. —You hear nothing but truth from me. (Ch. 13)	Love	Emma
10	Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be v	Truth	Emma

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