There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so si... - Jane Austen, Persuasion
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"
"she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."
"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."
"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death."