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There is no accounting for tastes.

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Ann Radcliffe
Age: 58 †
Born: 1764
Born: July 9
Died: 1823
Died: February 7
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Ann Ward
Anne Radcliffe
Anne Ward
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Ann Ward
Mrs. Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe
née Ward
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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.
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He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.
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What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
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If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.
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Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
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What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
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Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
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There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.
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Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
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The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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