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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.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Wise, Years, Law

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

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Errors, Vices, Rich

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• Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

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  Brave, Soul, Brave Souls

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• Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

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  Too Much, Littles, Pleasure

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.107

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• To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

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  Men, Should, Mankind

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.110

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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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  Men, Poverty, Cry

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• Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

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  Calumny Is, Envy, Gossip

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• Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

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  Interesting, Towns, Appearance

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.19

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• Superstition is but the fear of belief.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Superstitions, Belief

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.28

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• The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Privilege, Genius, Infirmity

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.31

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• Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.

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  Silence, Would Be, Leisure

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• Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

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  Independent, Forgiving, Emptiness

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• Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

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  Friendship, Judging, May

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.14

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

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  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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• Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

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  Love, Marriage, People

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• He who fears not, is to be feared.

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  Fear, Fear Not

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• Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

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  Enthusiasm, Ridiculous, Objects

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.3

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• Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

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  Eye, Mirrors, Departed

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.332

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

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  Punishment, Faults, Lament

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

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• He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Want, Honest, Ought

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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 . . .

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Giving, Political, Prejudice

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

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• Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Cute, Broken Heart, Lost Love

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• It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Eye

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• Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

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  Flattery, Please, Acceptable

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

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• Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

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  Religion, Despair, Atheism

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