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Quotation from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called _more_ wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory”

Jane Austen (spoken by Fanny Price)

Mansfield Park, Vol. II, Ch. 4 (Ch. 22) (1814 first edition)

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Fanny reflects on the mysteries of memory while talking to an inattentive Mary Crawford.

Citation: "If any one faculty of our nature may be called _more_ wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory" — Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Vol. II, Ch. 4 (Ch. 22) (1814 first edition). (id mansfield-park-q2)

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