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That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Mary Russell Mitford

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Mary Russell Mitford
Age: 67 †
Born: 1787
Born: December 16
Died: 1855
Died: January 10
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City of Winchester
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Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!
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I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.
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Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.
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A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.
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Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.
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I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.
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To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
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I have had a great misfortune my dear old dog is dead.
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... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.
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I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.
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She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.
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I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman...with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers...
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Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening it is the very sunset of the year.
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I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.
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We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
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Fashion is a capricious deity.
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Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.
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[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.
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I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.
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