How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Autor: Jane Austen Copy Quote More from Jane Austen “Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assis…” “Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.” “If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from w…” “Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. She was determined to drop his acqu…”