It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

Evil to some is always good to others

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.