Persuasion

by Jane Austen

the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet, serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading, and sedentary pursuits.

with very few exceptions, the sea-air always does good.

A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress’s head,

A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.”

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”