The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. – Jane Austen

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. – Jane Austen
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen