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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1802
Born: August 14
Died: 1838
Died: October 15
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I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.
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To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.
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There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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The stars are so far, far away!
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... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.
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A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
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There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.
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The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
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What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
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