I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
 mysticzelda · Mon Apr 07, 2008 @ 09:47pm · 1 Comments |
