Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody’s character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.


“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Emma
― Emma

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Emma
― Emma
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