Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
¶ Emma, ch. 30
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Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
¶ Emma, ch. 9 (1816)
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
¶ Pride and Prejudice, ch. 58 (1813)
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
¶ Sense and Sensability, ch. 31 (1811)
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