Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of pop…

Jane Austen
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all. ✨ 'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14 (Catherine Morland)
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all. ✨ 'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14 (Catherine Morland)

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