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“People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!”
“Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of peoples imagination.”
“Its very silly, she said, but I go on with it in spite of myself. Im afraid Im too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I cant read it.”
“When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement. ”
“I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, Ah me! I wish I were a widow! Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her d...”
