You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a...
Jane Austen
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behaviour, declaration, empowerment, gentlemanlike, gentlemen, humiliation, love, marriage proposal, men, mr darcy
When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed on...
Christopher Hitchens
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1945, adolf hitler, england, europe, fascism, fascism in europe, hinduism, nazis, rudyard kipling, school