Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosur…

Jane Austen
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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. ✨ Jane Austen (1816). Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes, p.249
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