Solved cryptogram
Not like the wild young men now-a-days, who think of nothing but themselves.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 43.
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Elizabeth listened, wondered, doubted, and was impatient for more. Mrs. Reynolds could interest her on no other point. She related the subjects of the pictures, the dimensions of the rooms, and the price of the furniture in vain. Mr. Gardiner, highly amused by the kind of family prejudice, to which he attributed her excessive commendation of her master, soon led again to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his many merits, as they proceeded together up the great staircase.
"He is the best landlord, and the best master," said she, "that ever lived. Not like the wild young men now-a-days, who think of nothing but themselves. There is not one of his tenants or servants but what will give him a good name. Some people call him proud; but I am sure I never saw anything of it. To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men."
"In what an amiable light does this place him!" thought Elizabeth.
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 19 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length60 letters, 19 of them different
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The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 43hard, 51 letters
- Chapter 43hard, 51 letters
- Chapter 43medium, 90 letters
- Chapter 43medium, 80 letters
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- Chapter 19medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 37medium, 61 letters
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