“There are secret humiliations to which no man would submit, as such, but from which love, when it is real, can take away the sting and the poison.”

— Francis Marion Crawford

A Cigarette-Maker's Romance (1894)

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Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909) 1854–1909

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