If you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove any thing.


Persuasion (1818)

Jane Austen Quotes

If you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much ...

If you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much ...

If you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much ...

If you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much ...