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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
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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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
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He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through,—to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.
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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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I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.
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A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.
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Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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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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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Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can but at any rate, do something.
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Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
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A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
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Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?
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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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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.
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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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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
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A girl in love will do a good deal.
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I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
Elizabeth Gaskell
. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.
Elizabeth Gaskell
