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There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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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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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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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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.
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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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