There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particula…

Jane Austen
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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome. And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. And yours, he replied with a smile, is wilfully to misunderstand them. ✨ Jane Austen (2006). The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.303, Penguin
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