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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“These days every wild place has, to one degree or another, been cut into and cut off.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice