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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.
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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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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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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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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