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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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A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
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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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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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Hard are life's early steps and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
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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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Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.
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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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