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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial

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Anthony Trollope
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Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Anthony Trollope: documented activity in 1847. Wikidata Q318399, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318399 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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