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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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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. – Jane Austen

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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. – Jane Austen

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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl. – Daisy Ashford

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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. – Mary Catherwood

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A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. – Woody Allen

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Her great merit is finding out mine — there is nothing so amiable as discernment. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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