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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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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Farewell's a bitter word to say.
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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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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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In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
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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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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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Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions 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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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
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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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