For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. – Jane Austen

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. – Jane Austen
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. – Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen