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Defect Quotes by Jane Austen
- There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
- There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And…
- And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.
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