Words I Wish I’d Written: Time and Conscience

Words I Wish I’d Written: Time and Conscience 2014-12-23T23:43:29-05:00

The whole of Lucy’s behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.

— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility


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