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Quotation from Emma by Jane Austen

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

Jane Austen (spoken by Emma Woodhouse)

Emma, Vol. I, Ch. IX (Project Gutenberg #158)

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Emma answers her father's puzzlement at people who enjoy what he does not; the remark applies to her own failures of sympathy.

Citation: "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." — Jane Austen, Emma, Vol. I, Ch. IX (Project Gutenberg #158). (id emma-q2)

Portrait: CassandraAusten-JaneAusten(c.1810) hires, Cassandra Austen, Public domain.

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