Solved cryptogram
We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 54.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"How hard it is in some cases to be believed! And how impossible in others! But why should you wish to persuade me that I feel more than I acknowledge?"
"That is a question which I hardly know how to answer. We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. Forgive me; and if you persist in indifference, do not make me your confidante."
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: 60 letters over 17 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length60 letters, 17 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 54easy, 90 letters
- Chapter 54easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 55hard, 50 letters
- Chapter 55hard, 53 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 31medium, 96 letters
- Chapter 46medium, 53 letters
- Chapter 4medium, 87 letters
- Chapter 51medium, 86 letters
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