Solved cryptogram
I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 1.
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 see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go - or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better; for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party."
"My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty."
"In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of."
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: 76 letters over 22 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length76 letters, 22 of them different
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