Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Educati…

Jane Austen
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. ✨ 'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. ✨ 'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

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