Mansfield Park

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere

Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

Fanny

the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves."

William to England, the never-failing hope of his arrival was worth much.

sure, but then he had so much countenance, and his teeth were so good, and he was so well made, that one soon forgot he was plain;

Matrimony was her object, provided she could marry well

for though it brought no

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another;