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Currently crying, at close to 2am, because a guy in 1830 wrote about Jane Austen's writing in a way that makes me Feel.

'There is an instinct in every unwarped mind which prefers truth to extravagance, and a photographic picture, if it be only of a kitten or a hay-stack, is a pleasanter subject in the eyes of most persons (were they brave enough to admit it), than many a glaring piece of mythology, which those who profess to worship High Art find themselves called upon to pronounce divine.'

'Mrs Dickson—did not much like it—thought it very inferior to P. & P.—Liked it the less, from there being a Mr. & Mrs Dixon in it.'

'There is not one person in the drama with whom we could readily dispense;—they have all their proper places; and fill their several stations, with great credit to themselves, and much satisfaction to the reader.'

'Can there be a great artist without poetry?'

'People are more ready to borrow and praise, than to buy.'