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“I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.”

— Jane Austen

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Wikiquote: Jane Austen
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Letter (1801-01-03) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]

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Austen, Jane. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Jane Austen. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Austen

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