Solved cryptogram
"Yes; but intricate characters are the most amusing. They have at least that advantage."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 9.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"I did not know before," continued Bingley, immediately, "that you were a studier of character. It must be an amusing study."
"Yes; but intricate characters are the most amusing. They have at least that advantage."
"The country," said Darcy, "can in general supply but few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and unvarying society."
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: 70 letters over 18 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length70 letters, 18 of them different
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