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Quotation from Love and Freindship and Other Early Works by Jane Austen
“A sensibility too tremblingly alive to every affliction of my Freinds, my Acquaintance and particularly to every affliction of my own, was my only fault, if a fault it could be called.”
Love and Freindship and Other Early Works, Love and Freindship, Letter 3rd (Project Gutenberg text)
Laura confesses the one fault she allows herself, which turns out to be a boast.
Citation: "A sensibility too tremblingly alive to every affliction of my Freinds, my Acquaintance and particularly to every affliction of my own, was my only fault, if a fault it could be called." — Jane Austen, Love and Freindship and Other Early Works, Love and Freindship, Letter 3rd (Project Gutenberg text). (id love-and-freindship-q2)
Portrait: CassandraAusten-JaneAusten(c.1810) hires, Cassandra Austen, Public domain.
