Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley (1744–1804) British judge and politician
Macbride v. Macbride (1805), 4 Esp. 242.
“There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.”
— Charlotte Brontë, book Villette
Source: Villette (1853), Chapter XXXVII: Sunshine
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