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The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
Source: Letter, 16 Dec 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.