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"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successfully, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;--but when a beginning is made--when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt--it must be a very heavy set [of people] that does not ask for more."

Jane Austen, Emma, 1816.

 

Why all this nonsense you may have wondered? "Must have been for the merriment" some do say.
"Nay, was to hear music for all to delight in". "No, twas to gawp at those so fine a displayed" !
It was these and yet non at all - Twas all for the love of an elegant Park 'ench.

Anon, 2005.

 

"These sort of boobies think that people come to balls to do nothing but dance;

whereas everybody knows that the real business of a ball is either

to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after somebody else's wife."

 

R.S. Surtees, Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, 1865

 

 

 

"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me I own,

and I laugh at them whenever I can."

 

Jane Austen, c 1800

 

 

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

 

Jane Austen - Emma, c 1800

 

 

"To be fond of dancing is a certain step towards falling in love."

 

Jane Austen, c 1800

 

 

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