Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Becau…

Charles Dickens
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Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over. ✨ Charles Dickens (1861). Great Expectations, p.48
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