Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders (1722)

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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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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Daniel Defoe

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

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