Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general.…

Jane Austen
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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life. I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think. ✨ Jane Austen, David M. Shapard (2012). The Annotated Pride and Prejudice: A Revised and Expanded Edition, p.26, Anchor
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