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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Jane Austen, (Dec 16 1775-1817), English novelist; She was known as the masterful miniaturist; wrote Pride and Prejudice, 1813; Sense and Sensibility, 1811.