Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Widely different was the effect of a second perusal.

"Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures! They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for ME--I should infinitely prefer a book."

Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes been found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity--to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

angry people are not always wise;

If she heard me, it was by good luck, for I am sure she did not listen.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.