You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldo…

Jane Austen
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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. ✨ Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). Jane Austen's Letters, p.32, Oxford University Press
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