We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park · 1814

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Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 9.

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Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1814, ch. 9.

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