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  1. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    Where love is the case, the doctor's an ass
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  2. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    Thus you see having committed a Crime once, is a sad Handle to the committing of it again; whereas all the Regret, and Reflections wear off when the Temptation renews it self; had I not yielded to see him again, the Corrupt desire in him had worn off, and 'tis very probable he had never fallen into it, with any Body else, as I really believe he had not done before.
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  3. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    That as my sister-in-law at Colchester had said, beauty, wit, manners, sense, good humour, good behaviour, education, virtue, piety, or any other qualification, whether of body or mind, had no power to recommend; that money only made a woman agreeable; that men chose mistresses indeed by the gust of their affection, and it was requisiteto a whore to be handsome, well-shaped, have a good mien and a graceful behaviour; but that for a wife, no deformity would shock the fancy, no ill qualities the judgment; the money was the thing; the portion wasneither crooked nor monstrous, but the money was always agreeable, whatever the wife was.
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  4. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore.
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  5. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    I rather wished for their ruin, than studied to avoid it.
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  6. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    As for Women that do not think their own Safety worth their Thought, that impatient of their present State, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes, that run into Matrimony, as a Horse rushes into the Battle, I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a Sort of Ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd People...
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  7. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we here speak of is a little altered; particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modester words that she told it at first, the copy which came first to hand having been written in language more like one still in Newgate than one grown penitent and humble, as she afterwards pretends to be.
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  8. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and that no Case can be so low, so despicable, or so empty of Prospect, but that an unwearied Industry will go a great way to deliver us from it, will in time raise the meanest Creature to appear again in the World, and give him a new Case for his Life.
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  9. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    If a young women once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in love with her; for if she believes herself charming charming enough to captive him, 'tis natural to expect the effects of it.
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  10. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.
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  11. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over...
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  12. Daniel Defoe _ Moll Flanders

    I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.
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