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“It is my situation I dislike, not myself.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

“She had learnt from Mrs. Bennet that without beauty no real and lasting happiness was attainable. It never occurred to her to question what she’d been taught.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

“There are times when happiness must be fought for, if we are to have any chance at all of achieving it.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

“But it is often difficult for us to recognise what virtue looks like because we so readily confuse it with pleasure. Pleasure can deliver is enjoyment - the feelings we derive from good food, good conversations, the contemplation of beauty - but these things do not last. Enjoyments are transient, but true happiness endures. That is its distinguishing quality.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister