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Northanger Abbey Quotes

Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body.

Source:(ed. Penguin Books, 2006), Volume I, Chapter 5, Page 33
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  • Writer: Jane Austen
  • Genre: Romance, Gothic, Historical Fiction
  • Published: 1817
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