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If you love me you will; and if you do not, I shall never love myself.
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a real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it
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Chide me when I do anything that is not well, but then make haste to tell me that you have forgiven me, and that you are what I shall ever be, a faithful friend.
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Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.
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How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.
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It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.
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I find I want courage to marry where I do not like
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I shall never be persuaded that marriage has a charm to raise love out of nothing, much less out of dislike
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One may be happy to a good degree, I think, in a faithful friend, a moderate fortune, and a retired life; further than this I know nothing to wish; but if there be anything beyond it, I wish it you.