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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.Jane Austen
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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.Jane Austen
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. – It is not fair. – He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths. – I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it – but fear I must.Jane Austen