It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone… — Jane Austen
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.
Sense and Sensibility · 1811
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Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 12.
Original citation
Austen, Jane, [published anonymously]. Sense and Sensibility. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1811, ch. 12.