There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

“From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morni…”

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much el…”

“[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's…”

“I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motiv…”