Jane Austen quote about life from Sense and Sensibility - Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death; and that was given.
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death; and that was given.
 Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811). copy citation

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Author Jane Austen
Source Sense and Sensibility
Topic life time hopelessness
Date 1811
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21839/21839-h/21839-h.htm

Context

“What I endured in so beholding her—but I have no right to wound your feelings by attempting to describe it—I have pained you too much already. That she was, to all appearance, in the last stage of a consumption, was—yes, in such a situation it was my greatest comfort. Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death; and that was given. I saw her placed in comfortable lodgings, and under proper attendants; I visited her every day during the rest of her short life: I was with her in her last moments."
Again he stopped to recover himself; and Elinor spoke her feelings in an exclamation of tender concern, at the fate of his unfortunate friend.” source

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