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

— John Cleland Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748)

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Truth is irresistible. The vivacity of its coloring has quite a different effect from the daub of falsity or invention.

Memoirs of a Coxcomb (1751)

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)

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)

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