in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
from the book "" by Jane Austen
People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.
I would recommend to her and Mr. D. the simple regimen of separate rooms.
I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.
- "Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"
- "For the liveliness of your mind, I did."
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting.
I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.