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.

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

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Topic

Personal chemistry Connecting with others

Speaker

Marianne Dashwood

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Sense and Sensibility

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1811 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Austen, Jane, [published anonymously]. Sense and Sensibility. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1811, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 12.

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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Source
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Medium
Novel
Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1813 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 15.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 15.

Another quote from the 1810s

Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

Tecumseh

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Property rights
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Tecumseh
Language
English
Time
1810 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Tecumseh. Speech to General William Henry Harrison. 14 Aug. 1810, Council at Vincennes, Indiana Territory, USA.

Current Citation

Tecumseh. Quoted in A History of the Indians of the United States, written by Angie Debo. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.