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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.
Georgette Heyer
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Georgette Heyer
Age: 71 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 16
Died: 1974
Died: July 4
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Georgette Heyer Rougier
Stella Martin
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My dearest goose, why didn't you trust me, when I assured you that you might?' he countered. 'I have cherished throughout the believe that you would confide in me, and you see I was quite right.
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What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all
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Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?
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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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I am relieved. May I now have the truth?
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Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?
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Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.
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I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.
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Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
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[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!”(Alverstoke)
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I remember only what interests me.
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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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Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes, he said with gentle reproach. Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.
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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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Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
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Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life. She smiled through her tears. Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.
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Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?
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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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