Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced,… - Jane Austen

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Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen (December 16 1775 – July 18 1817) was an English novelist who recorded the domestic manners of the landed gentry. She is known for her classically understated style and sly, ironic humour.

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"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 your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them."

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

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Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. - Jane Austen

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