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“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”
― Jane Austen, Emma