What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. – Jane Austen
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. – Jane Austen

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. – Jane Austen
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. – 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
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen