![]() ![]() ![]() I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.You deserve a longer letter than this but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.Letter to Cassandra () about her nephew George.I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea. I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favorable intentions towards him from his father or mother.Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.Letter (August 1796) on arriving in London.Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.Quotes Letters One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ![]()
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