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By Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- Source
- Emma (first edition, three volumes), 1816 · Volume I, chapter IX, p. 171
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- Internet Archive (scan of the first edition, London: printed for John Murray, 1816)
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Spoken by Emma Woodhouse in Jane Austen's novel Emma, as printed in the first edition (London: John Murray, title page dated 1816). She says it to her father, who cannot understand why the children like being tossed up to the ceiling by their uncle.