Austen Visits

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    Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    At La Scala it is customary to take no more than twenty minutes for those little visits one pays to boxes.
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)