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Quotation by Sarah Fielding
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Some fluctuating notions concerning repentance, virtue, honor, morality ... hovered around Lady Dellwyn's thoughts but were too wavering to bring her to any fixed determination. She became a constant attendant from one public place to another, where she met with many mortifications. But yet even these were not quite so dreadful to her as to retire and be subjected to her own company alone.
Sarah Fielding (1710–1768), British novelist. The History of the Countess of Dellwyn, bk. 4, "chapter the last," (1759).
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