Quotes from Jane Austen’s “Persuasion”

A trusted friend of the family, Mrs. Russell, speaking to Anne Elliott:

“I am no match-maker, as you well know, being much too well aware of the uncertainty of all human events and calculations.” (Amen to that, sister.)

On observing Captain Wentworth from a distance before he saw her:

“It was agitation, pain, pleasure; a something between delight and misery.” (Anybody who has been in love knows this feeling.)


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