“No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs — the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then — face the world.”

—  Dinah Craik

Ch 11
A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)

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English novelist and poet 1826–1887

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