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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 Landon
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Letitia Maclean
Letitia Elizabeth Maclean
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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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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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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
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We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.
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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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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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Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
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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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What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
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Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.
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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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Farewell's a bitter word to say.
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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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One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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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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