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Curiosity is its own suicide.
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 Maclean
Letitia Elizabeth Maclean
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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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I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
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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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In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.
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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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There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.
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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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A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
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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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Shopping, true feminine felicity!
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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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