A little humor for today

From Miss Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey:
"She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance. A misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can."

::cough, sputter, cough::

Miss Austen just throws that stuff in there. It's priceless.