Jane Austen Quotes

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

Jane Austen

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• Affair

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  Jane Austen
  • Heart
  • Delight
  • Affair