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But I choose to think he is escaped from the possibility of falling into any future afflictions, and that neither the malice of his pretended friends nor the sufferings of his real ones can ever again rend and torment his honest heart.

Sarah Fielding

Sarah Fielding (1710–1768), British novelist. The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last, the final sentence of the novel (1754).

Reflection on the death of David Simple.

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