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“Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” quote by Mark Twain — Download Open image

“Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

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