There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. (Jane Austen)

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

Jane Austen

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