Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

“whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”

“It is not every one,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”

“Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.