“I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or at other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter.” - Letter to Mr. Clarke, librarian to the Prince Regent
“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.” - Emma
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Mrs. Allen was one of those numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them.Jane Austen; Northanger Abbey (via peraequora)
