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Updated: September 20, 2024

And, indeed, their domestic happiness will be so great,-it is natural to wish to partake of it. I believe I am bewitched! I made a resolution, when I began, that I would not be urgent; but my pen-or rather my thoughts, will not suffer me to keep it-for I acknowledge, I must acknowledge, I cannot help wishing for your permission.

Fanny Burney - Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

And further, for that departing from iniquity is a kind of warfare with it-for iniquity will hang in thy flesh what it can, and will not be easily kept under-therefore no marvel if thou find it wearisome work, and that the thing that thou wouldst get rid of is so unwilling to let thee depart from it.

John Bunyan - The Riches of Bunyan : Selected from His Works