Schlagwort: I genuinely love this

hollyand-writes:

hollyand-writes:

Reminder that in Persuasion (because I’m reading it again), Jane Austen made a dick joke 

‘He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him “poor Richard,” been nothing better than a thick-headed, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done anything to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead.’