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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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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Letitia Landon
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Letitia Maclean
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Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
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To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
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Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
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Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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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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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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It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
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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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The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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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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words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
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Farewell's a bitter word to say.
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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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Shopping, true feminine felicity!
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Curiosity is its own suicide.
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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
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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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If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
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