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“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey