Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. – Jane Austen
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. – Jane Austen