My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

Jane Austen
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  1. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

  2. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

  3. In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

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