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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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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Hannah Webster Foster
Born:
September 10, 1758
Died:
April 17, 1840
(aged 81)
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