That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful thing I ever met with. Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. Following the Equator , Pt. II Quotations by Austen One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
He must think himself a most agreeable fellow. 1816 Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure to be kindly spoken of. The sooner every party breaks up the better. One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.