569 – “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.”

–Marianne Dashwood in Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility

Quote Number:  847

Source: Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Richard Bentley: London. 1833. Pg 77. Online Here.

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