"Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first."
"Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!"
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Source: The Clandestine Marriage act 1 (1766).
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