. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Quote by Jane Austen

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The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of...

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of...

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not...

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not...

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person...

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is...

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is...

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is...

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a...

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there...

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there...

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been...

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been...

Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written...

Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...