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• [F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Believe, Men

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• If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

  Sarah Fielding

  Modesty, Judgment, Candor

  Sarah Fielding (1986). “The cry (1754)”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fairest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.

  Sarah Fielding

  Eye, Vanity, Wife

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.75

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• Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

  Sarah Fielding

  Children, Blessing, Generations

  Sarah Fielding (1759). “The History of the Countess of Dellwyn ...”, p.254

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• I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

  Sarah Fielding

  Love, Believe, Passion

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• [T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

  Sarah Fielding

  Character, Imagination, Chiefs

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (1754). “The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable”, p.175

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• What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.

  Sarah Fielding

  Mean, Love Is, Desire

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