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Quotation from An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews by Henry Fielding
“I thought once of making a little Fortune by my Person. I now intend to make a great one by my Vartue”
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, Letter X (Shamela to her mother, Lincolnshire) (Project Gutenberg #30962 (1741 text))
After Booby retreats, saying he is bewitched, Mrs. Jewkes assures Shamela she will soon be mistress of the family. Shamela states her plan in one couplet-like sentence.
Citation: "I thought once of making a little Fortune by my Person. I now intend to make a great one by my Vartue" — Henry Fielding, An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, Letter X (Shamela to her mother, Lincolnshire) (Project Gutenberg #30962 (1741 text)). (id fielding-shamela-q1)
