Happy birthday Jane!

Jane Austen turned 231 years young yesterday.

With quips and quotes so numerous as to make it virtually impossible to call out the quintessential Jane, there is one in particular that sticks with me (especially on those days when I'm prone to taking things too seriously):

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" — Pride and Prejudice

If you've chanced to stumble on to my Rollyo searchrolls, you'll have found that I'm more than a bit of a Janeite. Nothing provides quite the same respite from my otherwise always-online life as a re-(re-)read of Pride and Prejudice (read or listen to it for the first time—again).

I also highly recommend the irreverent and hysterical Austen Blog: "one lump of snark or two?"