Why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist
Emma, Vol. 2, ch. 12 (ch. 30) [Frank Churchill] (1816)
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