“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she...” — Jane Austen Quote

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”

“And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.”

“but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.”