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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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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My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
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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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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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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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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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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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... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.
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I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.
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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
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All beginnings are very troublesome things.
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Nothing but love can answer to love no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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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 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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Shopping, true feminine felicity!
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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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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