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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
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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Sixteen
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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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Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
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He loved her, and would love her and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.
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I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.
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What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.
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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!
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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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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 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 say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!
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That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.
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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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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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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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It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear.
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It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive. (Mr. Bell)
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A girl in love will do a good deal.
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
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A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
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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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