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Quotes from Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure — John Cleland

1709–1789 England

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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.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748)

We no more choose our passions than our features or complexions.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748)

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

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748)

He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748)

That delicate glutton, my nether mouth.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748)

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."

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Cleland (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.