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An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof.

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You ask me, my friend, whether I am in pursuit of truth, or [of] a lady? I answer, both. I hope and trust they are united; and really expect to find truth and the virtues and graces besides in a fair form.

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It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

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It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth

Hannah Webster Foster

Hannah Webster Foster

Born: September 10, 1758
Died: April 17, 1840 (aged 81)
Bio: Hannah Webster Foster was an American novelist.
Known for:
  1. The Coquette (1797)
  2. The Power of Sympathy (1789)
  3. Power of Sympathy and the Coquette

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