Marianne could speak her happiness only by tears. Comparisons would occur—regrets would arise; and her joy, though sincere as her love for her sister, was of a kind to give her neither spirits nor language.
Jane Austen
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- Sense and Sensibility. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/161/pg161-images.html
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