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People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

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People, Advice, Wish

Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.256

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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

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Beauty, Sex, Males

Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.44

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Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

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Literature, Judgment, Critics

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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.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Disappointment, Desire, Failing

Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) (1839). “The idler in Italy”, p.287

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When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Broken, Doubt, Lapses

Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.32

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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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Fire, Volcanoes, Mind

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To appear rich, we become poor.

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Rich, Poor

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.86

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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

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Errors, Vices, Rich

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Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Memories, Spring, Autumn

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.115

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Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

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Thinking, People, Bores

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.16

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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.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Heart, Trying, Physicians

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Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Calumny Is, Envy, Gossip

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Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Imagination, Storytelling, Poet

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Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

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Women, Thinking, People

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Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Doomed, Listeners

Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.), Edmund Thomas PARRIS (1836). “The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman. Illustrated by Six Female Portraits, from Drawings by E. T. Parris”, p.73

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Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

War, Vanity, People

Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.261

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When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

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Understanding, Excited, Understood

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We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Punishment, Faults, Lament

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.34

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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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People, Certain

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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Flattery, Please, Acceptable

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.95

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Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Genius, Live In The Present, Wit

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.104

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alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Anchors, Casting, Streams

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People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

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Past, Years, People

Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.3

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Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

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Giving, Political, Prejudice

Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.5

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A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

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Beautiful, Women, Flower

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Born: September 1, 1789
Died: June 4, 1849
Occupation: Novelist
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