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Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1789
Born: September 1
Died: 1849
Died: June 4
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Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.
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There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.
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Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.
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There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.
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Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters but our strength is the forced fruit.
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Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.
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[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.
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A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.
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Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.
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Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
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You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.
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A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.
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Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.
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... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.
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Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
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A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.
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Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
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The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.
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When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!
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