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Quote by Jane Austen
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much s

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen

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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. – Jane Austen

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. – Jane Austen

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. – W. H. Auden

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