There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal. (Jane Austen)

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

Jane Austen

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