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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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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Hard are life's early steps and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
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To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
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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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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
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there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.
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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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there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
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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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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.
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to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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