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“I give you joy of our new nephew, and hope if he ever comes to be hanged it will not be till we are too old to care about it.”

— Jane Austen

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Source

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Wikiquote: Jane Austen
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Context

Letter to Cassandra (1811-04-25) [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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