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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
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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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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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