Jane Austen - like a bawse

The movies made of Jane Austen's novels have the appearance of being sissy or girlish, but she was into life like a lumberjack with a chainsaw. She understood it. Something one of my students said yesterday sparked a memory of one of her quotes and I just had to look it up again. A bit pessimistic, but pretty accurate.  The best part is on the appearance of merit or sense.  We get fooled all the time.  Wisdom is seeing the ruse, removing the facade, calling a spade a spade. 

Which reminds me of Emerson:

and still further:

Cheers.   "Live life and prosper."