“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!”
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About this quote
Miss Bingley says it while the drawing room is doing what drawing rooms do in Austen, and she is not being especially original. The line is funny because it is said flatly, as if announcing a fact about the universe, and because Austen lets an unremarkable character say the truest thing in the scene.
Source: Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 11