Solved cryptogram
I was never more annoyed! The insipidity, and yet the noise - the nothingness, and yet the self-importance, of all these people!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 6.
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"I should imagine not."
"You are considering how insupportable it would be to pass many evenings in this manner, - in such society; and, indeed, I am quite of your opinion. I was never more annoyed! The insipidity, and yet the noise - the nothingness, and yet the self-importance, of all these people! What would I give to hear your strictures on them!"
"Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow."
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: 100 letters over 19 different ones, graded easy.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length100 letters, 19 of them different
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