https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:59:10 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/austen-jane/66000/ https://wist.info/austen-jane/66000/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:37:32 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=66000 “I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,” said Darcy, “of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”
“My fingers,” said Elizabeth, “do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women’s do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault — because I would not take the trouble of practising.”

Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Pride and Prejudice, ch. 31 (1813)
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