You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
Jane AustenA novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
Jane AustenI could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
Jane AustenTo you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.
Jane AustenIt is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
Jane Austen