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"I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through, I am afraid, is pitiful."

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 9.

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"Oh yes - I understand you perfectly."

"I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through, I am afraid, is pitiful."

"That is as it happens. It does not necessarily follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours."

Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.

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