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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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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.
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Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.
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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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Shopping, true feminine felicity!
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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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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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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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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.
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To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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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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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
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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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Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
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