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Quotation by Jane Austen
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History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Catherine Morland, in Northanger Abbey, ch. 14 (1818).
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