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And if, when subdued, she knows but how to middle the matter between virtue and love, then will she be a wife for me: for already I am convinced that there is not a woman in the world that is love-proof and plot-proof, if she be not the person.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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He himself, poor fellow, thought it love-proof; but he had not then met HER.
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He himself, poor fellow, thought it love-proof; but he had not then met her.
Count Bunker 1905
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The human heart cannot be rendered love-proof, and love is an element strong as tidal waves.
Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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So was that the cause of the vexation I heard—that with him the warnings against wandering off weren’t even necessary, so good a job had his parents done on him, so love-proof had they made him, for fear the love would go in an unacceptable direction?
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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