I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.
Jane AustenMy ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express themโโby which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.
Jane AustenFor what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
Jane Austen