"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"I do not like to be told that I am an object of compassion."

"I have been so much delighted with this book, that I have read it through twice."

"I have just returned from a visit to some friends, where I was very well entertained, and had a good deal of dancing."

"She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its …"