Quote of the Day for Saturday, October 10, 2026

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone.

Marianne Dashwood, in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, 1811

Our note: Marianne defends her quick friendship with Willoughby.

Verified in the full text of Sense and Sensibility on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #161

Painted the same decade: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand, Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1817

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