Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. – Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. – Jane Austen
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. – Jane Austen
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. – Jane Austen