A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.
Jane AustenI wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
Jane AustenI am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.
Jane Austen