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should provoke you into shooting me
"There is no reason why I should provoke you into shooting me, as I have nothing to fear from arrest."
— from Frank Merriwell's Backers; Or, The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish

she plunges you into such misery
Trust me, she is as capricious as the wind; it may be, as you have said, that she now is really fond of you, but how long will it be before she plunges you into such misery, that you will be in danger from it of losing your reason, like the Thistle, Zeherit?
— from Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

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