I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circ…

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I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. ✨ Jane Austen (2009). Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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We do not suffer by accident. ✨ Jane Austen (1853). Pride and Prejudice, p.124
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. ✨ Letter to Cassandra Austen, 24 Dec. 1798
I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy. ✨ Jane Austen (2015). Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated), p.221, Book B … ▶
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attende … ▶
He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal. ✨ Complete Works of Jane Austen.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. ✨ Jane Austen (2009). Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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