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You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Please
Woman
Pretensions
Pretension
Insufficient
Pleased
Showed
Prejudice
Worthy

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