A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane AustenA man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
Jane AustenYou think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.
Jane Austen