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habit is our idea of eternity.
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
L. E. L.
Letitia Maclean
Letitia Elizabeth Maclean
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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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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In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Sneering springs out of the wish to deny and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
