But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
Tag: Jane Austen
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or…of something else.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.