I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like ev…

Jane Austen
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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. ✨ Jane Austen (2000). Sense and Sensibility: (A Modern Library E-Book), p.97, Modern Library
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