Status Updates From Agnes Grey

If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind; if, on the other hand, she is disagreeable in person and character, her plainness is commonly inveighed against as her greatest crime, because, to common observers, it gives the greatest offence;

We are naturally disposed to love what gives us pleasure, and what more pleasing than a beautiful face - when we know no harm of the possessor at least? Alittle girl loves her bird - Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes

oh my lanta I would beat these kids so badly like

AHH forced proximity trope hahahha