She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of thos…

Jane Austen
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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. ✨ Jane Austen (2015). Persuasion, p.188, Jane Austen
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