I could not sit seriously down to write a serious novel without making fun of it and of myself.
Pride and Prejudice
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious novel without making fun of it and of myself.
Pride and Prejudice
From a letter to James Edward Austen-Leigh.
1816
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