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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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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Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.
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Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
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there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.
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The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
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