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Laetitia Pilkington (born Laetitia van Lewen) (c. 1709 – 29 July 1750) was a celebrated Anglo-Irish poet. Her Memoirs are the source of much of what is known of the personalities and habits of Jonathan Swift and others.

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I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

Admonition, Admonitions, Believe, Disease

by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

Character, Dublin, Gossip, Love, Reasonably, Scandal

The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.

Bullying, Children, Compunction, Permitted, Torment, Years

Reputation. . . is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

Crime, Lost, Merit, Reputation

A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking. . . I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.

Female Writers, Give, Giving, Like, Mean, Please

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

Cassock, Committed, Gowns, Hypocrisy, Like, Sin

Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers?

Accusers, Monstrous, Seducers, Should

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