Time And Conscience: Austen's Warning, Today's Reality ~ Trumpian Politics And Other Ugly Stuff ~ As Seen From The Cheap Seats

 

How to secure fame and fortune

 

'The whole of Lucy’s behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience'.(Jane Austen, Sense And Sensibility, chapter 50, published 1811)

I suggest that all of you who continually wonder how Trump became the President of the United States, not once, but twice need look no further than Jane Austen's explanation of how Lucy got ahead in her world.

Brian