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Childhood, whose very happiness is 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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If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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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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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
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We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
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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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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
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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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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
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though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
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Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
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charity is a calm, severe duty it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.
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My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
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