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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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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.
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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
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