QuoteQuest“Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Jane Austen
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Letter to Cassandra (1807-02-08) [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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