"Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
~ Jane Austen ~












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"There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
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"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
"I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.
"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
"The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
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"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
"Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.
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"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.