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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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The stars are so far, far away!
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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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Nothing but love can answer to love no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
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Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true without it, we are little, false, and mean.
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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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