“I cannot tell you. It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language that is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
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“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”
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“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”