What of the famous opening lines of St Thomas's novel Pride and Humility:

"IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of salvation. However little known the feelings or views of such a man nay be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so
well fixed in the minds of the surrounding priests, that he is
considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their parishes."
invocante | 08.06.07 - 4:17 pm | #

I am certain that most 'Janeites' are far too intelligent to be Catholics.
Seamus Austin Healey | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 7:58 am | #

Zadok tagged us all with a book meme a while ago, by the way.
Boeciana | Homepage | 24.06.07 - 8:07 pm | #