house patterns
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“What fine weather this is! Not very becoming perhaps early in the morning, but very pleasant out of doors at noon, and very wholesome—at least everybody fancies so, and imagination is everything.”
“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
“A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.”
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“I wish,” said she, striking out a novel thought, “that somebody would give us all a large fortune apiece!”
“For my own part, my wishes are so moderate that the smallest income in nature would be enough for me.”
“Modesty, and all that, is very well in its way, but really a little common honesty is sometimes quite as becoming.”
“Your degree of respect for honesty, rich or poor, is precisely what I have no manner of concern with.”
“I believe I have said too much. Do not let us quarrel.”
“You are everything that is generous and considerate, and I am sure we shall never disagree on any point.”
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.”
“Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.”
Editorial note: Each line above has been taken directly, though completely out of context, from the works of Jane Austen…her novels and letters.
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