Pride and vanity versus integrity

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“Mr Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was not particularly agreeable to Emma herself.”

Omniscient narrator

Volume I, Chapter 1

“Mr Frank Churchill was one of the boasts of Highbury, and a lively curiosity to see him prevailed, though the compliment was so little returned that he had never been there in his life.”

Omniscient narrator

Volume I, Chapter 2

“[Emma] will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.”

Omniscient narrator

Volume I, Chapter 5

“I think [Harriet Smith] the very worst sort of companion that Emma could possibly have. She knows nothing herself, and looks upon Emma as knowing every thing. She is a flatterer in all her ways; and so much the worse, because undesigned.”

Mr Knightley

Volume I, Chapter 5

“I thought it my duty as a friend, and older than yourself, to say thus much to you. But do not imagine that I want to influence you.”

Emma

Volume I, Chapter 7

“[I] have very little intention of ever marrying at all [. . . ] I must see somebody very superior to any one I have seen yet.”

Emma

Volume I, Chapter 10

“Every body has their level: but as for myself, I am not, I think, quite so much at a loss.”

Emma

Volume I, Chapter 15

“The first error and the worst lay at her door. It was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing two people together.”

Omniscient narrator

Volume I, Chapter 16

“Emma was sorry; to have to pay civilities to a person she did not like through three long months!”

Omniscient narrator

Volume II, Chapter 20

“[Emma] did most heartily grieve over the idleness of her childhood—and sat down and practised vigorously an hour and a half.”

Omniscient narrator

Volume II, Chapter 27

“[Emma] would not be in a hurry to find fault, but she suspected that there was no elegance.”

Omniscient narrator

Volume II, Chapter 32

“She was quite determined not to utter a word that should hurt Jane Fairfax’s feelings.”

Omniscient Narrator

Volume