Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
You have delighted us long enough.
“Only a novel”… in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.