All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longes — Jane Austen, Persuasion
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longes — Jane Austen, Persuasion
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longes — Jane Austen, Persuasion
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longes — Jane Austen, Persuasion
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longes — Jane Austen, Persuasion
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All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

— Jane Austen, Persuasion
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