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Truth is irresistible. The vivacity of its coloring has quite a different effect from the daub of falsity or invention.

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I imagined, indeed, that you would have been cloyed and tired with the uniformity of adventures and expressions, inseparable from a subject of this sort, whose bottom or groundwork being, in the nature of things, eternally one and the same, whatever variety of forms and modes the situations are susceptible of, there is no escaping a repetition of near the same images, the same figures, the same expressions.

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Truth! stark naked truth, is the word, and I will not so much as take the pains to bestow the strip of a gauze-wrapper on it.

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All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.

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I feeling pretty sensibly that it was not going by the right door and knocking desperately at the wrong one, I told him of it: "Pooh," says he "my dear, any port in a storm."

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John Cleland

John Cleland

Born: September 24, 1709
Died: January 23, 1789 (aged 79)
Bio: John Cleland was an English novelist best known as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.

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