More from Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Emma (1815)In context- “Lady Susan”, Letter XXXII (1871)
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.
Jane Austen on men
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XI
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