Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. – Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. – Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen
There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them. – Jane Austen
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle