Sarah Fielding Quotes

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• Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in…
• If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
• The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
• I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be…
• I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to…
• Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to…
• The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
• [S]haring in common, without any thought of separate property, had ever been their friendly practice, from their first connection.
• I often used to think myself inthe case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if…

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