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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings the same books, the same music must charm us both.

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
Book
Enter
Must
Whose
Every
Taste
Men
Books
Point
Happy
Coincide
Feelings
Sensibility
Music
Charm

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