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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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Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
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Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
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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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The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
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alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!
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Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.
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Haste is always ungraceful.
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He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.
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Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.
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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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