Jane Austen: You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat — Jane Austen

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

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