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I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.
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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Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
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I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.
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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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All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.
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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
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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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Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
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A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
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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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..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.
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How different men were to women!
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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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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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