Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done."