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Jane Austen

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I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived - my breakfast supplied only two ideas - that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
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Letter (1799-06-19) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]

 
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