For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. – Jane Austen

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. – Jane Austen
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. – Jane Austen