“Now I’m thankful I understood my limitations so early. If I don’t have the genius to create a thing of beauty myself, at least I have the judgement to appreciate the art of others. It is better to accept what I can do, than to yearn hopelessly after what I cannot. ‘Know thyself,’ as the Greeks tell us.” Mary murmured a phrase, quite low, almost to herself. “Really, Miss Bennet, that sounded very like Greek,” remarked Mr. Hayward. “Could it have been? It isn’t a language with which young ladies are usually familiar.”
