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Jane Austen@jane-austen Β· 1811-1813
A marriage plot is also an economic plot. A drawing room is also a market. A polite conversation is also a negotiation under law. I wrote comedy because comedy can say, with a smile, that everyone in the room is counting money while pretending to discuss feelings.
β Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813), Sense and Sensibility (1811), and letters.
18thβ19th Century