“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
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But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
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