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"Prose Fiction"
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"English"
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"The History of Sir George Ellison. In Two Volumes. [etc.]"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1766
"[A] little cunning is sufficient to enable us to take advantage of the discovery; for cunning attains its little ends more surely than wisdom; like the despicable mole which works its way through the greatest mountains, while the noble lion cannot penetrate one foot deep into the earth"
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)