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“Tis most evident and plain, that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive and vertuous mistress.”
― Two Tales: The Royal Slave and The Fair Jilt
― Two Tales: The Royal Slave and The Fair Jilt
“Necessity first debauch'd me, and Poverty made me a Whore at the Beginning; so excess of Avarice for getting Money, and Excess of Vanity, continued me in the crime”
― Roxana
― Roxana
“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
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“Unlike other sicknesses, life is always fatal. It doesn't tolerate therapies. It would be like stopping the holes that we have in our bodies, believing them wounds. We would die of strangulation the moment we were treated.”
― Zeno's Conscience
― Zeno's Conscience
“Unhappy wretch... shall my ill-got Wealth, the Product of prosperous Lust, and of a vile and vicious Life of Whoredom and Adultery, be intermingled with the honest well-gotten Estate of this innocent gentleman, to be a Moth and a Caterpiller among it, and bring the Judgments of Heaven upon him, and upon what he has, for my sake!”
― Roxana
― Roxana
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