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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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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From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.
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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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I do love violets they tell the history of woman's love.
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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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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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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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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 false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
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There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.
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Farewell's a bitter word to say.
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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.
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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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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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