Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
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Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
Ellen Glasgow