Marjorie Fleming Quotes

• I hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Hope, Religious, Character

  'Journal' p. 80

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• I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Strong, Sex, Looks

  Marjorie Fleming (1935). “The complete Marjory Fleming: her journals, letters & verses”

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• Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Girl, Satan, Advantage

  1810 'Journal 2' in F Sidgwick (ed) The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

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• I am going to turn over a new life and am going to be a very good girl and be obedient to Isa Keith, here there is plenty of gooseberries which makes my teeth watter.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Life, Girl, Teeth

  'Journal' p. 76

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• A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Death, Giving, Mad

  'Journal' p. 29

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• An annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Members

  'Journal' p. 99

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• Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Sentiments

  'Journal' p. 99

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• The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Nature, Endure, Cant

  'Journal' p. 47

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• O lovely O most charming pug Thy gracefull air and heavenly mug ... His noses cast is of the roman He is a very pretty weoman I could not get a rhyme for roman And was obliged to call it weoman.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Love, Air, Pugs

  'Poems'

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• The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Eggs, Chicks, Vulgar

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• I would rather have a man dog then a women dog because they do not bear like women dogs, it is a hard case it is shoking.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Dog, Men, Bears

  1810 'Journal 2' in F Sidgwick (ed) The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

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• An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Country, Dirty, Towns

  1811 'Journal 3' in F Sidgwick (ed) The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

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• I like to here my own sex praised but not the other.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Sex, My Own

  Marjorie Fleming (1935). “The complete Marjory Fleming: her journals, letters & verses”

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• My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Writing, Answers, Letters

  'Letters' no. 1 'To Isabella'

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