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“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”

Pain Pleasure Generosity

Book:Evelina

Source: Evelina

“I don't know what the devil a woman lives for after thirty: she is only in other folks way.”

Book:Evelina; or, a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World. In two Volumes. ... The Second Edition. of 2; Volume 1

Source: Evelina; or, a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World. In two Volumes. ... The Second Edition. of 2; Volume 1

“We are almost all, my good General, of a nature so pitifully plastic, that we act from circumstance, and are fashioned by situation.”

Class Society Human Nature Personality

Book:Camilla

Source: Camilla

“You are made a slave in a moment by the world, if you don't begin life by defying it.”

Society Feminism Independence Self Actualization Personhood

Book:Camilla

Source: Camilla

“One indulgence alone from time to time I allow myself, - 'tis Music! which has power to delight me even to rapture! it quiets all anxiety, it carries me out of myself, I forget through it every calamity, even the bitterest anguish.”

Music Power Of Music Mr Albany

Book:Cecilia

Source: Cecilia

“From my earliest youth to the present hour...literature has been the favourite object of my pursuit, my recreation in leisure, and my hope in employment. My propensity to it, indeed, has been so ungovernable, that I may properly call it the source of my several miscarriages throughout life. It was the bar to my preferment, for it gave me a distaste to other studies; it was the cause of my unsteadiness in all my undertakings, because to all I preferred it. It has sunk me to distress, it has involved me in difficulties; it has brought me to the brink of ruin by making me neglect the means of living, yet never, till now, did I discern it might itself be my support.”

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Book:Cecilia

Source: Cecilia

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