Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Mamma, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

She was perfectly disposed to make every allowance for the colonel’s advanced state of life which humanity required.

Lady Middleton resigned herself to the idea of it, with all the philosophy of a well-bred woman, contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject five or six times every day.

“do you think me most a knave or a fool?”