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1  And yet its tradition made her regard a marriage with anyone within her reach as an unbearable humiliation.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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2  To his mother it perhaps appeared as a marriage to some lady of means who could not resist her boy's niceness.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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3  Besides, she was superstitiously devoted to them both, more entirely and frankly after her marriage than before it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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4  When a bachelor interests, and dominates, and teaches, and becomes important to a spinster, as Higgins with Eliza, she always, if she has character enough to be capable of it, considers very seriously indeed whether she will play for becoming that bachelor's wife, especially if he is so little interested in marriage that a determined and devoted woman might capture him if she set herself resolutely to do it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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