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Quote by Jane Austen
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it

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

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A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. – Jane Austen

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen

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The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression. – Allen J. Boone

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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