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Because if I am exacting it is for you and not for me—it is altogether for you—you understand that, dearest of all ... it is for you wholly.

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert

"Well, well—perhaps I am exacting; but understand one thing, Helle, about me," said Walter Jerrold, gravely, "I can bear with, and forgive errors—but deception, never."

From May Brooke by Dorsey, Anna Hanson

Like all people who struggle, suffer, and work, I am exacting, mistrustful, wilful, capricious....

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various