"I find that I have (as well as the rest of my sex) whatever face I set on it, a strong disposition to believe in miracles" p.15
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Card 7
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"No man enters [the drawing room] but the old grand master" p.18
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Card 8
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"Only the ladies had permission to shoot" p.20
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Card 9
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"the young ladies [were] skilful enough to defend a fort and they laughed very much to see me afraid to handle a gun" p.20
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Card 10
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"getting a lover is so far from losing, that tis properly getting reputation, ladies being much more respected in regard to the rank of their lovers than that of their husbands" p. 22
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Card 11
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"here are many ladies much richer than their husbands" p.25
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Card 12
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"the womanly spirit of contradiction that works in me" p.28
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Card 13
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"[The Countess of Cosel had] so absolute a dominion over [the King of Poland] that never any lady had had so much power in that court" p.33
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Card 14
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"I am going to write very dully, as most people do when they write of themselves" p.37
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Card 15
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"these little monsters, as ugly as devils, [...] pieces of deformity, [...] refuse of human nature" p.42
