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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.

— Jane Austen

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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

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But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.

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The sooner every party breaks up the better.

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