Wordsmitten Wednesday: Full Circle

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Wordsmitten Wednesday: Rational Creatures

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

Wordsmitten Wednesday: Lyme

A very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion