To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature…

To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.

Sourced, Amelia
(1751)

Book I, Ch. 1.

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