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[ . . . ] kvifor sa han ein ting så sikkert medan han heile tida meinte det motsette; dette var då høgst ubegripeleg! Korleis kunne ein i så fall gjere seg håp om å forstå andre menneske?
Det mennesket, anten det er ein herre eller ei dame, som ikkje finn glede i ein god roman, må vere useieleg dum.
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again.
I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.