Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
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Nay, but Jack, such eyes such eyes so innocently wild so bashfully irresolute Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love Then, Jack, her cheeks her cheeks, Jack so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes Then, Jack, her lips O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness Then, Jack, her neck O, Jack, Jack
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No caparisons, miss, if you please Caparisons don't become a young woman.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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