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A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
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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Waiting is far more difficult than doing.
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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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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
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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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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 won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
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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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But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.
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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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She never called her son by any name but John 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
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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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