"Did not you? I did for you. But……" — Jane Austen
"Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never."
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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