She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly. - Thomas Hardy

Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

Because 'tis always mournful not to be wanted, even if at the same time 'tis convenient.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!