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to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
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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Business before pleasure.
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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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The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
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All beginnings are very troublesome things.
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.
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Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
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I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.
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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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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.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
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The stars are so far, far away!
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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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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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