Quote of the Week: Jane Austen on Tiresome History

History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.

I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all---it is very tiresome. Jane Austen 1803

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This photo of Jane Austen's house in Chawton, Hampshire, England, was taken by Rudi Riet.