It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad onl…

Jane Austen
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. ✨ 'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23
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people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them ✨ Jane Austen (2015). Sense and Sensibility: World Classics, p.9, World Classic

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. ✨ 'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23

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