The Other Bennet Sister

by Janice Hadlow

“It seems to me,” he went on, “that, in the real world, it is impossible to be guided solely by either the impulses of feeling or by rational calculation. Neither is likely to make us happy. In my own view, we have need of them both. Wisdom, I suppose, lies in knowing when to call upon one and when on the other.”

The man who declares his affections most readily is not necessarily the man who feels them most profoundly.”

There are times when happiness must be fought for, if we are to have any chance at all of achieving it.”