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Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1810
Born: September 29
Died: 1865
Died: January 12
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London
England
Author of Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson
Mrs. Gaskell
née Stevenson
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He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.
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I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others but when we speak of him as 'a man,' we consider him not merely with regard to his fellow-men, but in relation to himself,--to life--to time--to eternity.
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What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.
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He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.
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Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake! (Ms. Pole)
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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
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Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
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I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.
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Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.
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I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.
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Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
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It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.
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