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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. – Jane Austen

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. – Jane Austen

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