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way Ellean but I feel your
I talk to you in a harsh way, Ellean, but I feel your pain almost as acutely as you do.
— from The Second Mrs. Tanqueray: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

work early but I fancy you
It certainly is a misfortune for a writer to do his best work early; but I fancy you'd better trust your genius and do its bidding whenever the monkey chooses to bite.
— from The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

why exactly but I forbid you
I've told you this story, Arbuthnot—I don't know why exactly; but I forbid you ever to mention it to me again.
— from False Evidence by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

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