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- We recognise that emotion is not enough, and that men and women are personalities capable of sustained relations, not mere opportunities for an electrical discharge.Chapter 4 (25% in)
- London only stimulates, it cannot sustain; and Margaret, hurrying over its surface for a house without knowing what sort of a house she wanted, was paying for many a thrilling sensation in the past.Chapter 17 (16% in)
There are no more uses of "sustain" in Howards End.
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