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Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1810
Born: September 29
Died: 1865
Died: January 12
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Author of Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson
Mrs. Gaskell
née Stevenson
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Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.
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I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still and it is a great art.
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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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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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A girl in love will do a good deal.
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But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
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But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
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I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
Elizabeth Gaskell
She never called her son by any name but John 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
Elizabeth Gaskell
I know you despise me allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.
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Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.
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Look back. Look back at me. Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale drive away in a carriage.
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But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.
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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
Elizabeth Gaskell
The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
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It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.
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I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.
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What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.
Elizabeth Gaskell
