I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.


Cathleen Schine

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Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

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I will only add, God bless you.
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