Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. – Jane Austen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. – Jane Austen

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. – Jane Austen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. – Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen