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Quotation from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery”

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park, Vol. III, Ch. 17 (Ch. 48) (1814 first edition)

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The narrator opens the final chapter by declining to dwell on the scandal.

Citation: "Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery" — Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Vol. III, Ch. 17 (Ch. 48) (1814 first edition). (id mansfield-park-q4)

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