Monday, November 04, 2013

 

Novels

Jane Austen (1775-1819), Northanger Abbey, chapter XIV:
"But you never read novels, I dare say?"

"Why not?"

"Because they are not clever enough for you—gentlemen read better books."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."



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