But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, a…

Jane Austen
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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge. ✨ Jane Austen (1833). Northanger Abbey, p.182
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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge. ✨ Jane Austen (1833). Northanger Abbey, p.182

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