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“Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Tatler. No. 49.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 200495e4b7cdc81eca5674d898773008b2f3d03e95c440c954f9497df2dbee18
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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