Best Paragraph Read Today

Via MR.
I concur with Tyler over at MR. This is one of the best parenthetical remarks I've read in a while, like a few days or so.

"(The fictional 18th century heroine, Moll Flanders, recognized that a high self-regard can be dangerous, arguing that women who believe themselves beautiful are easier to seduce: “If a young woman once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in love with her; for she believes herself charming enough to captivate him, ’tis natural to expect the effects of it.”)"

Read more here.