Austen

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    Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore every body, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)