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You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.

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Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.

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But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

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No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.