Jane Austen quote: sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what ...

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

~ Jane Austen ~

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