“I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived — my breakfast supplied only two ideas — that the rolls were good and the butter bad.”

—  Jane Austen

Letter (1799-06-19) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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