Date: 1754
"She put me upon recollecting the giddy scene, which those dreadfully interesting ones that followed it, had made me wish to blot out of my memory."
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Date: 1754
"I wish this ugly word foreign were blotted out of my vocabulary; out of my memory, rather"
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Date: 1754
"The gardens and lawn seem from the windows of this spacious house to be as boundless as the mind of the owner, and as free and open as his countenance"
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Date: 1754
There is "narrow-hearted race of men, who live only for the gratification of their own lawless appetites, and consider all the rest of the world as made for themselves"
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Date: 1754
"My brother, tho' in the main, above singularity, will, nevertheless, in things he thinks right, be govern'd by his own rules, which are the laws of reason and convenience."
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Date: 1754
"Let [my love] be evermore circumscribed by the laws of reason, of duty"
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Date: 1754
"Proceed, child, your mind is the unsullied book of nature: Turn to another Leaf"
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Date: 1754
"Sir Charles Grandison's heart is the book of heaven-- May I not study it?"
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Date: 1754
"How often has that tender bosom, whose glory it would have been to melt at another's woe, and to rejoice in acts of kindness and benevolence to her fellow-creatures, been armed by herself (not the mistress, but the slave, of her passions) not with defensive, but offensive, steel!"
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Date: 1754
"How often has that tender bosom, whose glory it would have been to melt at another's woe, and to rejoice in acts of kindness and benevolence to her fellow-creatures, been armed by herself ... not with defensive, but offensive, steel"
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