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“But you never read novels, I dare say? Why not? Because they are not clever enough for you — gentlemen read better books. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” — Jane Austen

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But you never read novels, I dare say? Why not? Because they are not clever enough for you — gentlemen read better books. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen