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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.
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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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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charity is a calm, severe duty it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.
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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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I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
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There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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