If I Had Ever Learnt, I Should

…but Then I Am Unlike Other People I Dare Say.

She Hoped To Be Wise And Reasonable In Time; But Alas! Alas! She Must Confess To Herself That She Was Not Wise Yet.

I Have Frequently Detected Myself In Such Kind Of Mistakes... In A Total Misapprehension Of Character At Some Point Or Other: Fancying People So Much More Gay Or Grave, Or Ingenious Or Stupid Than They Really Are, And I Can Hardly Tell Why, Or In What The Deception Originated. Sometimes One Is Guided By What Other People Say Of Them, Without Giving Oneself Time To Deliberate And Judge.

What One Means One Day, You Know, One May Not Mean The Next. Circumstances Change, Opinions Alter.

The Sooner Every Party Breaks Up The Better.