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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

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
Two
Mismanagement
Young
Darcy
Great
Prejudice
Men
Appearance
Goodness
Certainly
Pride
Education

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