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The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.

Edward Short
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Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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