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All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
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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Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.
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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
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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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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
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sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.
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There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
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The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
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Shopping, true feminine felicity!
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