I should like to write you the kind of words that burn the paper they are written on -- but words like that have a way of being not only unforgettable but unforgivable. You will burn the paper in any case; and I would rather there should be nothing in it that you cannot forget if you want to.
Lord Peter Wimsey to Harriet Vane in Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night (1935).
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