Maxioms by Jane Austen
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient read more
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want read more
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever read more
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
