Jane Austen quote about defects from Persuasion - There is hardly any personal defect . . . which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
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There is hardly any personal defect . . . which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
 Jane Austen, Persuasion (1816). copy citation

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Author Jane Austen
Source Persuasion
Topic defects manners
Date 1816
Language English
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Context

“That tooth of her's and those freckles. Freckles do not disgust me so very much as they do him. I have known a face not materially disfigured by a few, but he abominates them. You must have heard him notice Mrs Clay's freckles."
"There is hardly any personal defect," replied Anne, "which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to."
"I think very differently," answered Elizabeth, shortly; "an agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. However, at any rate, as I have a great deal more at stake on this point than anybody else can have, I think it rather unnecessary in you to be advising me."” source

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