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“If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.”
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- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 742aafbfe641a9d46e3614d9b5356eff62be103c1b35890d351c920dc61ac440
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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