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Quotation from Emma by Jane Austen

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

Jane Austen (spoken by Emma Woodhouse)

Emma, Vol. I, Ch. X (Project Gutenberg #158)

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Emma explains to Harriet why she does not mean to marry, in a speech the rest of the novel overturns.

Citation: "Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall." — Jane Austen, Emma, Vol. I, Ch. X (Project Gutenberg #158). (id emma-q3)

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