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... believe in maxims and rules . It was plain that there could be nothing in common . The other lady was neither of the same country , nor of the same religious and political parties , nor exactly of the same class , nor of the same ...
... believe in maxims and rules . It was plain that there could be nothing in common . The other lady was neither of the same country , nor of the same religious and political parties , nor exactly of the same class , nor of the same ...
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... believe that we who have that passion , instead of expressing more than we feel , have generally rather a tendency to be reserved upon the subject , as we seldom expect sympathy . Many of us would rather live in solitude . and on small ...
... believe that we who have that passion , instead of expressing more than we feel , have generally rather a tendency to be reserved upon the subject , as we seldom expect sympathy . Many of us would rather live in solitude . and on small ...
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... believe that this kind of sowing is a preservative against the dangers of pure love and an imprudent or unequal marriage . The calculation is well founded . After a few years of indiscriminate debauchery , a young man is likely to be ...
... believe that this kind of sowing is a preservative against the dangers of pure love and an imprudent or unequal marriage . The calculation is well founded . After a few years of indiscriminate debauchery , a young man is likely to be ...
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... believe that the desire was for intellectual companionship than when inconstant passions are presumed to have been the motives , and it has so happened that a few persons of great eminence have set an example in this respect which has ...
... believe that the desire was for intellectual companionship than when inconstant passions are presumed to have been the motives , and it has so happened that a few persons of great eminence have set an example in this respect which has ...
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... believe that he could not be a proper sort of lord without a prodigal waste of money . Yet even Byron was not centred in local ideas ; that which was best in him , his enthusiasm for Greece , was not an essential part of Nottinghamshire ...
... believe that he could not be a proper sort of lord without a prodigal waste of money . Yet even Byron was not centred in local ideas ; that which was best in him , his enthusiasm for Greece , was not an essential part of Nottinghamshire ...
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