“I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.' 'That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us.” EvilSolitudeJudgmentVain Hopes Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“It would hardly be early in November, there were generally delays, a bad passage or something; that favouring something which everybody who shuts their eyes while they look, or their understandings while they reason, feel the comfort of.” Human NatureReasoningProcrastinationWishful ThinkingVain Hopes Book:Mansfield Park Source: Mansfield Park