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Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words
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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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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Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.
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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
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I know you despise me allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.
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Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.
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I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice “but it’s harder to be resigned than happy people think.
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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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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
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Only you're right in saying she's too good an opinion of herself to think of you. The saucy jade! I should like to know where she'd find a better!
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Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself.
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What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.
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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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I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.
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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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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.
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That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.
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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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I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference.
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
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