"And to all this she must yet..." - Quote by Jane Austen
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
More by Jane Austen
“The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-”
“I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.”
“At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.”
More on Education
“Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.”
“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”
“No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”
More on Reading
“Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.”
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”