Jane Austen

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being read more

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be read more

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.