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Updated: May 21, 2025

"Why so, Ma'am!-Why, really-as to that,-'pon honour, Ma'am, you are rather-a little severe;-for how is it possible for a man who is in the house, to study the classics? "But, did you study politics at school, and at the university?"

Fanny Burney - Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World