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• Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

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  War, Vanity, People

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

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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.

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  Broken, Doubt, Lapses

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

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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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• Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

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  Sleep, Would Be

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.10

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• Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Tyrants, Democracy, Despotism

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.39

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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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  Heart, Trying, Physicians

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• A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.

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  Real, Character, Men

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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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• 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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  Men, Causes, Calling

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.114

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• Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

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  Religious, Men, Errors

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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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  Heart, Men

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.10

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• Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

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  Talent, Obscure

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• Haste is always ungraceful.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Haste

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• Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

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  Winning, Individual Happiness, Admiration

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.19

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• Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

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  Flower, Remembrance, Earth

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• Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Men, Greatness, Mountain

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• Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Broken, Mind, Trials

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