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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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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. – Jane Austen

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Shyness
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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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Neighbors
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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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Women
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The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one. – Joan Baez

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My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Love :: Relationships

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

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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. – Thomas Carlyle

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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