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.
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Original Citation
Austen, Jane, [published anonymously]. Sense and Sensibility. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1811, ch. 12.
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Current Citation
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 12.
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