p. 129
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I imagined, indeed, that you would have been cloyed and tired with the uniformity of adventures and expressions, inseparable from a subject of this sort, whose bottom or groundwork being, in the nature of things, eternally one and the same, whatever variety of forms and modes the situations are susceptible of, there is no escaping a repetition of near the same images, the same figures, the same expressions.
— John Cleland
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I imagined, indeed, that you would have been cloyed and tired with the uniformity of adventures and expressions, inseparable from a subject of this sort, whose bottom or groundwork being, in the nature of things, eternally one and the same, whatever variety of forms and modes the situations are susceptible of, there is no escaping a repetition of near the same images, the same figures, the same expressions." in the context of "p. 129" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "John Cleland" (Quotes, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748): Quotations are cited from Peter Wagner (ed.) Fanny Hill; or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985).)
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About John Cleland
John Cleland (1709 – January 23 1789) was an English writer; he is best remembered as the author of the erotic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, sometimes published under the title Fanny Hill.
About John Cleland
John Cleland (1709 – January 23 1789) was an English writer; he is best remembered as the author of the erotic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, sometimes published under the title Fanny Hill.
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