“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.”
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- Wikiquote: Jane Austen
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Context
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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