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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Jane Austen on Boys and Girls

It would be , could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.

Jane Austen
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