Books--oh! No. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.'I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.
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Zum Autor"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit sense."
"So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing."
"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
"Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like."
"...For to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan."
"It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct."