...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a... - Jane Austen, Persuasion
"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."
"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."
"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."
"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."
"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."
"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."