"All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."
- Jane Austen
"Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home."
"When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing,..."