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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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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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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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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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When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.
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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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Sneering springs out of the wish to deny and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
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I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.
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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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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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sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.
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Shopping, true feminine felicity!
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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habit is our idea of eternity.
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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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