I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to …

George Eliot
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I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is. ✨ George Eliot (2005). Four Novels of George Eliot, p.1193, Wordsworth Editions
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