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By Jane Austen
Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do.
- Source
- Emma (first edition, three volumes), 1816 · Volume I, chapter VIII, p. 132
- Read at
- Internet Archive (scan of the first edition, London: printed for John Murray, 1816)
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Spoken by Mr. Knightley to Emma Woodhouse in Jane Austen's novel Emma, as printed in the first edition (London: John Murray, title page dated 1816). He says it after hearing her argue that her friend Harriet should wait for a better offer of marriage.