Solved cryptogram
"To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 10.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"To yield readily - easily - to the persuasion of a friend is no merit with you."
"To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either."
"You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection. A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request, without waiting for arguments to reason one into it. I am not particularly speaking of such a case as you have supposed about Mr. Bingley. We may as well wait, perhaps, till the circumstance occurs, before we discuss the discretion of his behaviour thereupon. But in general and ordinary cases, between friend and friend, where one of them is desired by the other to change a resolution of no very great moment, should you think ill of that person for complying with the desire, without waiting to be argued into it?"
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
Solve it yourself
This quotation is a cryptogram here: 64 letters over 20 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length64 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 9easy, 61 letters
- Chapter 9hard, 67 letters
- Chapter 10easy, 98 letters
- Chapter 10medium, 70 letters
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- Chapter 33hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 44hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 29hard, 57 letters
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