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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
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“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
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