• Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

    Jane Austen: Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
    Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.211, Infobase Publishing