“Let me know when you begin the new tea, and the new white wine. My present elegancies have not yet made me indifferent to such matters. I am still a cat if I see a mouse.”

—  Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1813-09-23) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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