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Quotation from Emma by Jane Austen
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken”
Emma, Vol. III, Ch. XIII (Project Gutenberg #158)
The narrator's comment on the proposal scene, in which Emma does not tell Mr. Knightley all she knows of Harriet.
Citation: "Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken" — Jane Austen, Emma, Vol. III, Ch. XIII (Project Gutenberg #158). (id emma-q8)
Portrait: CassandraAusten-JaneAusten(c.1810) hires, Cassandra Austen, Public domain.
