Quote#Children
Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with…
Quote byJane Austen · 1775–1817
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Cassandra (1807-02-08) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition].
English (original)
Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.
— Jane Austen
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