

“I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over...”
― Moll Flanders
― 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.”
― Moll Flanders
― Moll Flanders

“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
― Robinson Crusoe
― Robinson Crusoe

“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― Moll Flanders
― Moll Flanders
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