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One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Geraldine Jewsbury

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Geraldine Jewsbury
Age: 68 †
Born: 1812
Born: August 22
Died: 1880
Died: September 23
Novelist
Writer
Measham
Leicestershire
Folly
Conscience
Crime
Much
Reproaches
Follies
Reproach
Crimes

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