"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.












There are secrets in all families, you know.
More Jane Austen quotes
"...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wis...
"Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subseq...
"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subseq...
"So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.
"A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
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"Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few w...