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"text": "Methinks I feel all the Woman riſe in me when I reflect upon the nauſeous Rogues that pretend to deceive us. Wretches! that can never have it in their Power to over-reach any Thing living but their Miſtreſſes! In the Name of Goodneſs, if we are deſigned by Nature as ſuitable Companions to the other Sex, why are we not treated accordingly? If we have Merit, as ſome allow, why is it not as baſe in Men to injure us, as one another? If we are the Inſignificants, that others call us, where is the Triumph in deceiving us?",
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"text": "The whole forenoon generally ſpent amidſt a ſucceſſion of viſitants, a mob of idlers; the reſt of the day in dinners, public places, and evening-parties. Although in my own mind I deſpiſed the giddy reſtleſs inſignificants that figured in this perpetual drama; yet as I conſidered myſelf as a paſſenger only for the time, I ſubmitted to be carried along with the ſtream, and partook of the flying amuſements, as they occurred.",
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"text": "Sometimes, they lunch-called you between 12:45 and 2:00, knowing you wouldn’t be there. It’s an art form, passed down generation to generation. I tried to one-up them by early-calling them, usually from home, say at 8:30 a.m., their poor assistants knowing that was one more return call they’d have to do that night when they were still at the office at 10 p.m. late-calling the insignificants of the 310 area code.",
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