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A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
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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I do love violets they tell the history of woman's love.
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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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