Date: 1713, 1719
"For in our Youth we commonly dress our Thoughts in the Mirrour of Self-Flattery, and expect that Heaven, Fortune, and the World, should cajole our Follies, as we do our own, and lay all Faults on others, and all Praise on our selves."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1944; 2018
"It is pleasanter to be five years older and beautiful than status quo and under par, but I must force my loose mind into its overalls and get going."
preview | full record— O'Connor, Flannery (1925-1964)