Solved cryptogram
Affectation of candour is common enough; one meets with it everywhere.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 4.
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 would wish not to be hasty in censuring anyone; but I always speak what I think."
"I know you do: and it is that which makes the wonder. With your good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! Affectation of candour is common enough; one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design, - to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad, - belongs to you alone. And so, you like this man's sisters, too, do you? Their manners are not equal to his."
"Certainly not, at first; but they are very pleasing women when you converse with them. Miss Bingley is to live with her brother, and keep his house; and I am much mistaken if we shall not find a very charming neighbour in her."
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: 58 letters over 18 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length58 letters, 18 of them different
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- Chapter 7medium, 59 letters
- Chapter 18medium, 77 letters
- Chapter 39medium, 58 letters
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