It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. …

Jane Austen
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It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life. ✨ Jane Austen (2016). Emma, p.386, Re-Image Publishing
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