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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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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A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
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he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
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The stars are so far, far away!
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Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
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In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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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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We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
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