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"If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it."

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 7.

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"I am astonished, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "that you should be so ready to think your own children silly. If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own, however."

"If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it."

"Yes; but as it happens, they are all of them very clever."

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