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... happy to others , than really to make ourselves so . Of all disparities , that in humour makes the most unhappy mar- riages , yet scarce enters into our thoughts at the contracting of them . Several that are in this respect unequally ...
... happy to others , than really to make ourselves so . Of all disparities , that in humour makes the most unhappy mar- riages , yet scarce enters into our thoughts at the contracting of them . Several that are in this respect unequally ...
Page 45
... happy to others , than really to make ourselves so . Of all disparities , that in humour makes the most unhappy mar- riages , yet scarce enters into our thoughts at the contracting of them . Several that are in this respect unequally ...
... happy to others , than really to make ourselves so . Of all disparities , that in humour makes the most unhappy mar- riages , yet scarce enters into our thoughts at the contracting of them . Several that are in this respect unequally ...
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... happy . A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship , all the enjoyments of sense and reason , and indeed , all the sweets of life . Nothing is a greater mark of a degenerate and vicious age , than the common ridicule ...
... happy . A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship , all the enjoyments of sense and reason , and indeed , all the sweets of life . Nothing is a greater mark of a degenerate and vicious age , than the common ridicule ...
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VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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