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“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."

"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice