Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. ✨ Georg…

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. ✨ George Eliot (2013). Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated), p.1477, Delphi Classics
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