"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
-Jane Austen
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"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.“
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"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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