The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance
Jane AustenNay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.
Jane AustenYou deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
Jane Austen