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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One mans ways may be as good as anothers, but we all like our own best. – Jane Austen

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. – Jane Austen

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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them. – Jane Austen

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

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future –and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. – Albert Camus

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire. – W. H. Auden

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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