If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.
Jane AustenI assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
Jane Austen