I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing โ my situation โ my foolishness and awkwardness.
Jane AustenThen it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
Jane AustenI can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.
Jane Austen