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Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if shehavethemisfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well she can†imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms.

-Austen,Jane
  Northanger Abbey, ch.14.

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