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Why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Source:Volume II, Chapter XII
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  • Book: Emma
  • Writer: Jane Austen
  • Genre: Classics, Romance
  • Published: 1815
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