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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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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There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.
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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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Youth is a season that has no repose.
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habit is our idea of eternity.
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The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
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