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Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

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To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

Source: Sir Percy Blakeney, in I Will Repay, ch. 7 (1906).
-- Emmuska Orczy, (Sep 23 1865-1947), Hungarian-British novelist; She is chiefly remembered as author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, one of the greatest popular successes of the 20th century.


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