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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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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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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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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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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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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