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sacrifice everything my life if need
It contained the following lines, “I hope that these wretched louis will convince you that I am ready to sacrifice everything, my life if need be, to assure you of my affection.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

said earnestly Miss Laura I never
Bessie Carroll drew a long breath as she looked about, and said earnestly, “Miss Laura, I never, never saw any place so dear!
— from The Torch Bearer: A Camp Fire Girls' Story by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston


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