Memorable Quotes from Julie Andrews
42 quotesLove and Principles in Conflict
Emily Barham
You lack principles, Charlie. Isn't there anything you would die for?
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
Sure. I'd die for you, if it ever came to that.
Emily Barham
I really believe you would.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle.
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Inquiry About Children's Playclothes
Captain
Is it possible, or could I have just imagined? Have my children by any chance been climbing trees today?
Maria
Yes, Captain.
Captain
I see. And where, may I ask, did they get these, uhm, these...
Maria
Playclothes.
Captain
Oh, is that what you call them?
Maria
I made them, from the drapes that used to hang in my bedroom...They still had plenty of wear left. The children have been everywhere in them.
Captain
Do you mean to tell me that my children have been roaming about Salzburg dressed up in nothing but some old drapes?!
Maria
Umm, hmm, and having a marvelous time.
Captain
They have uniforms.
Maria
Straitjackets, if you'll forgive me.
Captain
I will not forgive you for that.
Maria
Children can't do all the things they're supposed to if they have to worry about spoiling their precious clothes.
Captain
They haven't complained yet.
Maria
Well, they wouldn't dare! They love you too much. They fear you too much!
Captain
I don't wish you to discuss my children in this manner.
Maria
Well, you've got to hear from someone! You're never home long enough to know them.
Captain
I said I don't want to hear anymore from you about my children!
Maria
I know you don't, but you've got to! Now, take Liesl.
Captain
You will not say one word about Liesl, Fraulein.
[hesitatingly]
Maria
She's not a child anymore, and one of these days, you're going to wake up and find that she's a woman. You won't even know her. And Friedrich, he's a boy, but he wants to be a man and there's no one to show him how.
Captain
Don't you DARE tell ME about my son!
Maria
Brigitta could tell you about him if you let her get close to you. She notices everything.
Captain
Fraulein...
Maria
And Kurt pretends he's tough not to show how hurt he is when you brush him aside...
Captain
That will do!
Maria
...the way you do all of them. Louisa I don't even know about yet...
Captain
I said that will do!
Maria
But somebody has to find out about her, and the little ones just want to be loved. Oh, please, Captain, love them! Love them all!
Captain
I don't care to hear anything further from you about my children.
Maria
I'm not finished with you!
Captain
Oh, yes, you are, Captain! Fraulein! You will pack your things and return to the abbey.
[pauses, then corrects himself]
Captain
I behaved badly. I apologize...You were right. I don't know my children...You've brought music back into the house. I'd forgotten. Fraulein, I want you to stay. I ask you to stay more than you know.
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Queen Clarisse's Reflection on Relationships
Queen Clarisse Renaldi
Well Maurice, it's just you and I. Or are you upset with me too?
[Maurice leaves]
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A Farewell Without Explanation
Captain
You left without saying goodbye, even to the children.
Maria
It was wrong of me, forgive me.
Captain
Why did you?
Maria
Please don't ask me. Anyway, the reason no longer exists.
Elsa
Fraulein Maria, you've returned. Isn't it wonderful, Georg?
[entering]
Maria
May I wish you every happiness, Baroness? And you too, Captain. The children tell me you're to be married.
Elsa
Thank you, my dear.
Captain
You are back to, uh, stay?
Maria
Only until arrangements can be made for another governess.
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Cultural Differences in Affection and Gifts
Emily Barham
You brought me some chocolates.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
Two boxes of Hershey's.
Emily Barham
Well, that's very American of you, Charlie. You just had to bring along some small token of opulence. Well, I don't want them. You Yanks can't even show affection without buying something.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
Well don't get into a state over it. I thought you liked chocolates.
Emily Barham
I do, but my country's at war and we're doing without chocolates for a while. And I don't want oranges or eggs or soap flakes, either. Don't show me how profitable it will be to fall in love with you, Charlie. Don't Americanize me.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
You American-haters bore me to tears, Miss Barham. I've dealt with Europeans all my life. I know all about us parvenus from the States who come over here and race around your old cathedral towns with our cameras and Coca-Cola bottles... Brawl in your pubs, paw your women, and act like we own the world. We over-tip. We talk too loud. We think we can buy anything with a Hershey bar. I've had Germans and Italians tell me how politically ingenuous we are. And perhaps so. But we haven't managed a Hitler or Mussolini yet. I've had Frenchmen call me a savage because I only took half an hour for lunch. Hell, Miss Barham, the only reason the French take two hours for lunch is because the service in their restaurants is lousy. The most tedious lot are you British. We crass Americans didn't introduce war into your little island. This war, Miss Barham, to which we Americans are so insensitive, is the result of 2,000 years of European greed, barbarism, superstition, and stupidity. Don't blame it on our Coca-Cola bottles. Europe was a going brothel long before we came to town.
Emily Barham
Dear me, what an outburst!
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
So lay off, Mrs. Miniver. If you don't like our Hershey bars, don't take em. Pick yourself a frock or get out. It's not my job to listen to your sentimental contempt.
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A Special Bond Between Liesl and Maria
Liesl
Mother?
[after Ralf rejects her]
Maria
That sounds so nice.
Liesl
I like calling you "Mother.
Maria
I like hearing it.
Liesl
You love Father very much. I can tell you do.
Maria
Very much.
Liesl
Mother, what do you do when you think you love someone? I mean, when you stop loving someone or he stops loving you?
Maria
Well, you cry a little. Then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does.
Liesl
There are so many things I think I should know but I don't. I really don't.
Maria
How can you?
Liesl
Sometimes I feel the world is ending.
Maria
Then you feel it's just beginning?
Liesl
Yes!
Maria
It was that way with me. And for you it will be just as wonderful.
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Unexpected Timing and Preparedness
Queen Clarisse Renaldi
I know it was short notice, but... you were all dressed.
[to wedding guests]
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A Queen's Perspective on Timeliness
Queen Clarisse Renaldi
A queen is never late, everyone else is simply early.
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A Princess and the Pursuit of Dignity
Queen Clarisse Renaldi
A princess never chases a chicken.
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Natural Order and Expectations in Relationships
Sarah Sherman
You're a scientist, and you're supposed to respect a natural order in all things. Breakfast comes before lunch...And marriage should come before a honeymoon cruise.
[in bed together]
Professor Michael Armstrong
You're on the wrong boat.
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Commitment and Fear in Relationships
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
You're forever falling for men on their last nights on furlough. That's about the limit of your commitments, one night, a day, a month. You prefer lovers to husbands, hotels to homes. You'd rather grieve than live.
Emily Barham
You're not only cowardly and selfish; you're remarkably cruel as well.
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Bedtime Rules and Stormy Exceptions
Captain
Fraulein Maria, did I or did I not say that bedtime is to be strictly observed in this household?
Maria
Yes, well the children were scared of the thunderstorm and... You did, sir.
Captain
And do you or do you not have trouble following these simple instructions?
Maria
Only during thunderstorms, sir.
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A Secret Gift Among Friends
Maria
I'd like to thank each and every one of you for the precious gift you left in my pocket today.
Captain
Um, what gift?
Maria
It's meant to be a secret, Captain, between the children and me.
Captain
Uh-huh. Then I suggest that you keep it, and let us eat.
Maria
Knowing how nervous I must have been, a stranger in a new household, knowing how important it was for me to feel accepted. It was so kind and thoughtful of you to make my first moments here so warm and happy and... pleasant.
Captain
What is the matter, Marta?
Marta
Nothing.
Captain
Uh, Fräulein... is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you, uh, intend leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion?
Maria
Oh, they're all right, Captain. They're just happy.
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Royal Duties and Personal Perspectives
Queen Clarisse Renaldi
As your queen I simply cannot condone it... as a Grandma, I say right on!
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The Importance of Patience in Leadership
Queen Clarisse Renaldi
We never rush, we hasten.
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A Request for Time and Reflection
Professor Michael Armstrong
Just give me five minutes with her. After all, she is my girl.
Sarah Sherman
Put that in the past tense.
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A Conversation About Attention and Awareness
Elsa
Now, where is that lovely little thing you were wearing the other evening, when the Captain couldn't keep his eyes off you.
Maria
Couldn't keep his eyes off me?
Elsa
Come, my dear, we are women. Let's not pretend we don't know when a man notices us...
Maria
The Captain notices everybody and everything.
Elsa
Well, there's no need to feel so defensive, Maria. You are quite attractive, you know. The Captain would hardly be a man if he didn't notice you.
Maria
Baroness, I hope you're joking.
Elsa
Not at all.
Maria
But I've never done a thing to...
Elsa
But you don't have to, Maria. There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.
Maria
In love with him'?
Elsa
Of course. What makes it so nice is he thinks he's in love with you.
Maria
But that's not true.
Elsa
Oh surely you've noticed the way he looks into your eyes. And you know, uh, you blushed in his arms when you were dancing just now. Don't take it to heart. He'll get over it soon enough, I should think. Men do, you know.
Maria
Then I should go. I mustn't stay here.
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A Playful Exchange Between Two Characters
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
Easy, tiger, that's a tailored shirt.
Emily Barham
Oh, shut up and let me kiss you.
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Finding Fun in Every Task
Mary Poppins
In every ] that ] be done, there is an element of ]. You find the fun and snap! The job's a ].
[[job; [must; [fun; snaps her fingers; [game]
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Establishing Discipline in the Household
Captain
You are the twelfth in a long line of governesses who have come here to look after my children since their mother died. I trust you will be an improvement on the last one. She stayed only two hours.
Maria
What's wrong with the children, Captain?
Captain
Oh, there's nothing wrong with the children. Only the governesses. They were completely unable to maintain discipline. Without it, this house cannot be properly run. Will you please remember that, Fraulein? Every morning, you will drill the children in their studies. I will not permit them to dream away their summer holidays. Each afternoon, they will march about the grounds breathing deeply. Bedtime is to be strictly observed - no exceptions...You will see to it that they conduct themselves at all time with the utmost orderliness and decorum. I am placing you in command.
Captain
Now, when I want you, this is what you will hear.
[blows whistle]
Maria
Oh, no, sir, I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children, and definitely not for me. It would be too... humiliating.
Captain
Fräulein, were you this much trouble at the Abbey?
Maria
Oh, much more, sir!
Captain
Hmm.
[starts to leave the room when Maria blows the whistle. He looks back at her.]
Maria
Excuse me, sir, I don't know your signal.
Captain
You may call me "Captain.
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Support and Doubt in Uncertain Times
Elsa
My dear, is there anything you can't do?
Maria
Well, I'm not sure I'll make a very good nun.
Elsa
Oh, if you have any problems, I'd be happy to help you.
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A Unique Measurement Perspective from Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins
* Reading her magical tape measure, after the children ask her to measure herself.
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Critique of Unscientific Thinking
Sarah Sherman
Against all the evidence, Michael, I'd say you had a very unscientific mind.
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Wedding Plans and Campus Relationships
Sarah Sherman
What's your position on a July wedding?
Professor Michael Armstrong
Oh, July, August, September or October.
Sarah Sherman
Don't let me hurry you. I just don't want to be the only common-law wife on the campus.
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A Conversation about Brooding Behavior
Sarah Sherman
Oh, will you stop brooding?
Professor Michael Armstrong
I like to brood.
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Queen's Proposal for Marriage
Queen Clarisse Renaldi
My lord Archbishop, I would like to take this man as my husband, if you please.
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Mary Poppins Defines Practicality in Every Way
Mary Poppins
As I expected. "Mary Poppins, practically ] in every way.
[[perfect]
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Debate on British Values and Historical Impact
Emily Barham
I believe in honor, service, courage, and fair play, and cricket, and all the other symbols of British character. Which have only civilized half the world!
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
You British plundered half the world for your own profit, let's not pass it off as the age of enlightenment.
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Sacrifice and Celebration in War Context
Mrs. Barham
Emily, I must warn you. Charlie's picture is in all the papers and they're going to put up a monument on his grave.
Emily Barham
What on earth for? All he did was die. Dear me, we shall be celebrating cancer and automobile smash-ups next.
Lt. Cmdr. Bus Cummings
He didn't just die, Emily. He sacrificed his life.
[fervently]
Mrs. Barham
That was very pagan of him.
Lt. Cmdr. Bus Cummings
He was the first American to die on Omaha Beach.
Emily Barham
Was there a contest?
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Criticism of Tooth Fairy Performance
Lily
You might just be the worst tooth fairy ever!
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The Balance of Freedom and Honesty
Maria
I just couldn't help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and everything was so green and fresh, and the Untersberg kept leading me higher and higher, as if it wanted me to go right through the clouds with it.
Reverend Mother
Child, suppose darkness had come and you were lost?
Maria
Oh, mother, I could never get lost up there, that’s my mountain, I was brought up on it,...It was the mountain that led me to you. Sometimes, I would come down the mountain, and climb a tree, and look over your wall into your garden and hear the Sisters singing on their way to Vespers; which brings me to another transgression, Reverend Mother, I was singing out there today, without permission...I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.
Reverend Mother
Some people would call that honesty.
Maria
Oh, but it's terrible, Reverend Mother. You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we've had a disagreement? Well, lately I've taken to kissing the floor whenever I see her coming, just to save time.
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Finding Love and Faith in Conflict
Maria
I left... I was frightened... I was confused. I felt, I've never felt that way before, I couldn't stay. I knew that here I'd be away from it. I'd be safe... I can't face him again... Oh, there were times when we would look at each other. Oh, Mother, I could hardly breathe... That's what's been torturing me. I was there on God's errand. To have asked for his love would have been wrong. I couldn't stay, I just couldn't. I'm ready at this moment to take my vows. Please help me.
Reverend Mother
Maria, the love of a man and a woman is holy too. You have a great capacity to love. What you must find out is how God wants you to spend your love.
Maria
But I pledged my life to God. I pledged my life to his service.
Reverend Mother
My daughter, if you love this man, it doesn't mean you love God less. No, you must find out and you must go back.
Maria
Oh, Mother, you can't ask me to do that. Please let me stay, I beg of you.
Reverend Mother
Maria, these walls were not built to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.
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A Question of Curiosity
Queen Clarisse Renaldi
Do I want to know?
[Mia shows up in soaking wet clothes]
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Finding Love and New Beginnings
Captain
There isn't going to be any Baroness...well, we've, uhm, called off our engagement, you see...Well, you can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else, can you?
[he kisses her]
Maria
The Reverend Mother always says, when the Lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window'.
Captain
What else does the Reverend Mother say?
Maria
That you have to look for your life.
Captain
Is that why you came back? And have you found it Maria?
[She nods]
Maria
I think I have. I know I have.
Captain
I love you.
Maria
Oh, can this be happening to me?
Captain
Do you know when I first started loving you? That night at the dinner table when you sat at that ridiculous pine cone.
[he brings Maria to the center of the gazebo; laughs]
Maria
What? I knew the first time you blew that whistle.
[laughs too]
Captain
Oh, my love...
[as he caresses her cheek with his right hand]
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Attraction Beyond Heroism in War
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
I'm not your type, you know.
Emily Barham
Like hell, you're not!
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
I only thought you fancied heroes. I'm yellow, honey, clear through.
Emily Barham
That's your most attractive quality. Oh, I've had it with heroes! Every man I've loved has died in this war. You'll never get caught in the shooting - that's one thing I'm sure of. You can't imagine how attractive that makes you to me.
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The Illusion of Valor in War
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
Emily, I want the world to know what a fraud war is.
Emily Barham
But war isn't a fraud, Charlie, it's very real. At least that's what you always tried to tell me, isn't it? That we shall never get rid of war by pretending it's unreal? It's the virtue of war that's the fraud, not war itself. It's the valor and the self-sacrifice and the goodness of war that needs the exposing. And here you are being brave and self-sacrificing, positively clanking with moral fervor, perpetuating the very things you detest merely to do "the right thing". Honestly, Charlie, your conversion to morality is really quite funny. All this time I've been terrified of becoming Americanized, and you, you silly ass, have turned into a bloody Englishman.
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The Paradox of Cowardice and War
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
I discovered I was a coward. That's my new religion. I'm a big believer in it. Cowardice will save the world. War isn't hell at all. It's man at his best; the highest morality he's capable of. It's not war that's insane, you see. It's the morality of it. It's not greed or ambition that makes war: it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons: for liberation or manifest destiny. Always against tyranny and always in the interest of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some ten million humans in the interest of humanity. Next war it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity. It's not war that's unnatural to us, it's virtue. As long as valor remains a virtue, we shall have soldiers. So, I preach cowardice. Through cowardice, we shall all be saved.
Mrs. Barham
And after this, I'm sure all the generals will dash off and write books about the blunders made by other generals and statesmen will publish their secret diaries and it'll show beyond any shadow of doubt that war could easily have been avoided in the first place. And the rest of us, of course, will be left with the job of bandaging the wounded and burying the dead.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
I don't trust people who make bitter reflections about war, Mrs. Barham. It's always the general with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. It's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
Emily Barham
That was unkind, Charlie, and very rude.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
We shall never end wars, Mrs. Barham, by blaming it on the ministers and generals, or warmongering imperialists, or all the other banal bogeys. It's the rest of us who build statues to those generals and name boulevards after those ministers. The rest of us who make heroes of our dead and shrines of our battlefields. We wear our widow's weeds like nuns, Mrs. Barham, and perpetuate war by exalting its sacrifices. My brother died at Anzio.
Emily Barham
I didn't know that Charlie.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
Yes. An everyday soldier's death, no special heroism involved. They buried what pieces they found of him. But my mother insists he died a brave death and pretends to be very proud.
Mrs. Barham
You're very hard on your mother. Seems a harmless enough pretense to me.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
No, Mrs. Barham. No, you see my other brother can't wait to reach enlistment age. That'll be in September.
Mrs. Barham
Oh lord.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison
Maybe ministers and generals who blunder us into wars, Mrs. Barham, the least the rest of us can do is to resist honoring the institution. What has my mother got for pretending bravery was admirable? She's under constant sedation and terrified she may wake up one morning and find her last son has run off to be brave.
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Mary Poppins' Stance on Being Sacked
Mary Poppins
Sacked?! Certainly not, I am never sacked.
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Tutu Comments Amidst Playful Banter
Derek Thompson
Does this tutu make my butt look big?
Lily
Huge.
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A Prayer for Guidance and Understanding
Maria
Dear Father, now I know why You sent me here. To help these children prepare for a new mother. And I pray this will become a happy family in Thy sight. God bless the captain. God bless Liesl and Friedrich. God bless Louisa, Brigitta, Marta and little Gretl. And I forgot the other boy. What's his name? Well, God bless what's-his-name. God bless the Reverend Mother and Sister Margaretta and everybody at the abbey. And now, dear God, about Liesl. Help her know that I'm her friend and help her tell me what she's been up to...
Liesl
You are not going to tell father are you?
Maria
Shh, help me to be understanding so that I may guide her footsteps. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen.
Liesl
I was out walking and somebody locked the doors early. I didn't want to wake everybody, so when I saw your window open. You're not going to tell Father, are you?
Maria
How in the world did you climb up here?
Liesl
It's how we always got in to play tricks on the governess. Louisa can make it with a whole jar of spiders in her hand.
Maria
Spiders? Liesl, were you out walking all by yourself? If we wash that dress tonight, nobody would notice it tomorrow. You could put this on. Take your dress and put it to soak in the bathtub. Come back here and sit on the bed, and we'll have a talk.
Liesl
I told you today I didn't need a governess. Well, maybe I do.
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Mary Poppins' Advice on Etiquette
Mary Poppins
Close your mouth please, Michael, we are not a codfish.
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A Proposal from Queen Clarisse Renaldi
Queen Clarisse Renaldi
Dear Joseph... is it too late to ask you to accept my hand in marriage?
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