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I will only add, God bless you.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Mark Twain, American author and humorist (1835–1910)

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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

I was quiet, but I was not blind.