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Jane Austen: One has not...

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Source: Mrs. Elton, in Emma, ch. 36 (1816).
-- Jane Austen, (Dec 16 1775-1817), English novelist; She was known as the masterful miniaturist; wrote Pride and Prejudice, 1813; Sense and Sensibility, 1811.


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