“Where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.”
Emma on the small-minded Churchills
Emma, volume 1, chapter 18
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Little minds
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The great Mrs. Churchill
“The great Mrs. Churchill was no more. . . . Goldsmith tells us that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally recommended as a clearer of ill fame.”
Emma, volume 3, chapter 9
I’ve been on an Emma kick for the last few weeks. Since tomorrow is Halloween, perhaps we’ll move on to Northanger Abbey.
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