We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, …

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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb. ✨ Jane Austen (1853). Pride and Prejudice, p.81
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