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de Joinville is not named in
It is for this reason M. de Joinville is not named in my list, although I had for a considerable time frequented his house.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

dear Julia I need not inculcate
Upon your reflecting and steady mind, my dear Julia, I need not inculcate the lessons which may be drawn from this woe-fraught tale; but for the sake of my sex in general, I wish it engraved upon every heart, that virtue alone, independent of the trappings of wealth, the parade of equipage, and the adulation of gallantry, can secure lasting felicity.
— from The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton A Novel: Founded on Fact by Hannah Webster Foster

dispassionate judgment I need not iterate
What I have already said of his opportunities of personal observation and of dispassionate judgment I need not iterate.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

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