Austen

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    I do not write for such dull elves
    As have not a great deal of ingenuity themselves.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    What did she say?—Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.—She said enough to show there need not be despair—and to invite him to say more himself.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)