Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
From politics it was an easy step to silence.
I trust that absolutes have gradations.
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation