Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Tag: Jane Austen
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.