Persuasion
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Jane Austen
"Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect , by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed into pity and contempt, as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century-and there , if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an…