I chiefly made it my own care to initiate her very infancy in the rudiments of virtue, and to impress upon her tender years a young odium and aversion to the very sight of men.
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Would she could make of me a saint,Or I of her a sinner.William Congreve
A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
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I could find it in my heart to marry thee, purely to be rid of thee.
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves em still two fools.
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
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Yes, but tenderness becomes me best - a sort of dyingness - you see that picture has a sort of a - ha, Foible A swimmingness in the eyes.
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