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It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.
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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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.
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Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
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It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
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