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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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Author of Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson
Mrs. Gaskell
née Stevenson
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I wish I could love people as you do, Molly!' 'Don't you?' said the other, in surprise. 'No. A good number of people love me, I believe, or at least they think they do but I never seem to care much for any one. I do believe I love you, little Molly, whom I have only known for ten days, better than any one.
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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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I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
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He loved her, and would love her and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.
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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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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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But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
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He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.
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Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words
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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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As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.
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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 had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
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Waiting is far more difficult than doing.
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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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If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends
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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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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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