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“From politics, it was an easy step to silence.”

Jane Austen · Politics

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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