Jane Austen
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"The letter, perhaps, began in bitterness, but it did not end so. The adieu is charity itself.
But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who
received it, are now so widely different from what they were then, that every unpleasant
circumstance attending it ought to be forgotten. You must learn some of my philosophy.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
"I cannot give you credit for any philosophy of the kind. Your retrospections must be so
totally void of reproach, that the contentment arising from them is not of philosophy, but,
what is much better, of innocence. But with me, it is not so. Painful recollections will
intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled. I have been a selfish being all my
life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was
not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in
pride and conceit
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