No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; …

Jane Austen
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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. ✨ Jane Austen (2009). Northanger Abbey, p.92, Wild Jot Press
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