Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

“Edward Ferrars was not recommended to their good opinion by any peculiar graces…”

“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the bles…”

“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed …”