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)
I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all—it is very tiresome
