Hannah Webster Foster - The Coquette (1797)

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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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