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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
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