"Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

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Time did not compose her.

More Jane Austen quotes
"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.
"Time will explain.
"Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
"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...
"I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the world.