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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.
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 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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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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Do anything but love or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship never let him know how dear he is flit like a bird before him lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.
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Youth is a season that has no repose.
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