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Jane Austen
Jane Austen
1815·Bath, England

...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

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Do not, my soul, seek immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

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