There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! Jane Austen
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Jane Austen
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. Jane Austen
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen