The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. – Jane Austen

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. – Jane Austen
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. – Jane Austen
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. – Jane Austen