'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, ...

\'My fingers,\' said Elizabeth, \'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman\'s do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman\'s of superior execution.\' Darcy smiled and said, \'You are perfectly right.\'
'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'
 Jane Austen

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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