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Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
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Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?
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The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
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I've noticed that ineffectual people usually do go in for highfalutin threats.
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God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
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You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
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Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
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Do you forget that I am your sister? No; I've never been granted the opportunity to forget it.
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I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
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Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
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My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
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As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
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Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.
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My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?
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People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
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I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
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The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!
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I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
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Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.
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There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!
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Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
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As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!
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And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy's floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it. (Charles)
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No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
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Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
Georgette Heyer
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Born:
August 16, 1902
Died:
July 4, 1974
(aged 71)
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