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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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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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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The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
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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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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.
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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
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Business before pleasure.
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My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
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