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Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.
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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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
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And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
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He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.
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But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.
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..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
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What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.
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She never called her son by any name but John 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?
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