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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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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen

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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. – 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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Constant togetherness is fine — but only for Siamese twins. – Victoria Billings

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