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"Clarissa" Quotes
A young woman navigates societal expectations in order to pursue her own desires.
Quotes
She had an immense variety of conversation, and seemed to know perfectly well what she was saying, but yet with all her vivacity, she was neither noisy nor dull; far from the first, and when ever a thought came into her head, it sparkled in her words like the radiant rising sun
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
I have always been admired for my ingenuity and punctuality.
What right have I to complain of Providence, while so many live who suffer a thousand times more than I do?
Infamy and neglect bring their reward at last; and it is often in the power of the aggrieved to give happiness by gratifying their revenge.
It is not easy to be a villain and a husband at the same time.
The sweetest and meekest of Martyrs borne down by a thousand insults and indignities!
Resignation, however, is a card seldom played but when no other can be put in. It is thought to show a noble fortitude in the mind that plays it: though, like the knave of clubs, the holder may be often the greatest loser by it.
That he is that melancholy character, an habitual Gamester; who, in his bosom, perhaps, has as many desperate doubts and fears to grapple with, as the other on the brink of the mad-house.
A little uncommon knowledge, how dangerous a thing it is to trust implicitly to professions of penitence and remorse!
