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It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.
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
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Author of Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson
Mrs. Gaskell
née Stevenson
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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
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