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Updated: July 16, 2025

The self-evident nature of some of the facts would support themselves, you may say, in some instances; but my perceiving the scrupulous care he takes to say no more than what he knows to be true, my perfect reliance on the relater's private character for integrity, gives a zest to every anecdote he tells a specific weight to every word of conversation which he repeats appropriate value to every trait of wit or humour characteristic of the person he describes.

Maria Edgeworth - Tales and Novels — Volume 10