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Sarah Fielding (8 November 1710 – 9 April 1768) was an English author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She wrote The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749), the first novel in English aimed specifically at children. Earlier she had success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple (1744).

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The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Loss, Imagination, Wife, Attend, Horrible

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Author, Candor, Judgment, Modesty, Works

Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss. . . . But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.

Education, Hopes, Names, Take, Taken, Word

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

Left, Liberty, Make, Reader, Use

Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.

Criticism, Forgiving, Frown, Humor, Reading, Story

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

Air, Readers, Reading, Stupendous, Wings

Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task. . . . In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.

Dive, Mind, Order, Recesses, Striking, Writing

I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.

Marriage, Women, Struggle, Thought, Lasted, Resign

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

Believe, Conceal, Love, Passion, Words

There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.

Character, Determines, Namely, Passion, Strong

What I mean by love. . . is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.

Desire, Happiness, Love, Love Is, Mean, Object

[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.

Choices, Men, Range, Station, Wise, World

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Affairs, Husband, Latin, Marriage, Needle, Pothooks

The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.

Actors, Inward, Mind, Motives, Opinion, Thinking

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Drooping, Healing, Inspirational, Kindness

[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them. . . . They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.

Believe, Fix, Make, Marriage, Men

I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me.

Brother, Fools, Marriage, Nonsensical, Romantic Love, Speakfor

I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.

Condition, Crown, Hunting, Marriage, Thinking, Whilst

Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

Blessing, Children, Generations, Lived, Manners, World

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

Confusion, Desire, Errors, Lives

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