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NOVELISTS > novelist > Jane Austen
You mistake me,...
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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high repect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
Source: Mr. Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice, ch. 1 (1813), in answer to Mrs. Bennet's accusation that he had no compassion on my poor nerves.
-- Jane Austen, (Dec 16 1775-1817), English novelist; She was known as the masterful miniaturist; wrote Pride and Prejudice, 1813; Sense and Sensibility, 1811.