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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.   Austen, Jane

Excerpt from Emma · This quote is about opportunity · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Jane Austen (December 16, 1775 July 18, 1817) was a prominent English novelist whose work is considered part of the Western canon. Her insights into women's lives and her mastery of form and irony made her arguably the most noted and influential novelist of her era.

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