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“What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.”
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- Source:
- Advice to a Lady.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d3d32634d9d436e515f163d8068e551cde1ea1f4a739db905144ba303cb477ac
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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