Solved cryptogram
A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little. One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 2.
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"Impossible, Mr. Bennet, impossible, when I am not acquainted with him myself; how can you be so teasing?"
"I honour your circumspection. A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little. One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight. But if we do not venture, somebody else will; and after all, Mrs. Long and her nieces must stand their chance; and, therefore, as she will think it an act of kindness, if you decline the office, I will take it on myself."
The girls stared at their father. Mrs. Bennet said only, "Nonsense, nonsense!"
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: 93 letters over 22 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length93 letters, 22 of them different
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