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Who would be a chaperone?

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He would fling himself on his knees before her, never noticing the dog

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I left them at it

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He went with her and made himself ridiculous at the dressmaker’s

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Why should we seek to explain away all the beautiful things of life?

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Are we so sure that art does elevate?

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The artist knew precisely the sort of girl that ought to be there

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A man’s work ’tis till set of sun, but a woman’s work is never done!

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Does the lady out shopping ever fall in love with the waiter at the bun-shop?

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Woman has been appointed by Nature the trustee of the children

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Comparing himself the while with MoliÈre reading to his cook

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The singer may be a heavy, fleshy man with a taste for beer

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It is the fool who imagines her inhuman

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It seized a natural human passion and turned it to good uses

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She suggested that poets and novelists should take service for a year in any large drapery or millinery establishment

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Who is it succeeds in escaping the law of the hive?

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