Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.

Henry James
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  2. I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

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  5. She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

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