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Quotes on On Writing

“The little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces little effect after much labour.”
— Letter to James Edward Austen, 16 December 1816
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. The pen has been in their hands.”
— Persuasion, Chapter 23
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