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• But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Sweet, Flower, Tree

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1668, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Splendid, Nevertheless

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1653, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  School, Loss, Tears

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1131, Delphi Classics

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• Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Equality, Night, Men

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1872). “Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell”, p.315

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• He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Chance, Pleasure, Deny

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Father, Fall, Ornaments

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.966, Delphi Classics

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• I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Writing, Fiction, Biographies

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2009). “The Life of Charlotte Brontë”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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• On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Night, Romance, Brave

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1287, Delphi Classics

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• How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Evil, Judging, Judgement

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2814, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Believe, Care, Dare

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics

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• He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Body, Flesh, Way

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2015). “Wifes And Daughters”, p.39, Elizabeth Gaskell

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• All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Children, Heart

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1272, BookCaps Study Guides

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• One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love. But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Expression, Looks, Too Much

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

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• I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Flower, Two, Three

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

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• If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Two, Judging, Steps

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1022, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Suffering, Triumph, Done

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.955, Delphi Classics

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• My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Grief, Sleep, Heart

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• Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Heart, Bravery, Want

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1182, Delphi Classics

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• What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, People, May

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1681, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Struggle, Passion, Fighting

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1215, Delphi Classics

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• To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Marriage, Girl, Men

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2015). “Wifes And Daughters”, p.76, Elizabeth Gaskell

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• I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mistake, Too Late, Done

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1619, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through,—to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Love, Romantic, Fire

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1513, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, Perfection, Opinion

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• God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but the thing must be, nevertheless. Neither you nor any other master can help yourselves. The most proudly independent man depends on those around him for their insensible influence on his character - his life.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Character, Independent, Men

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1453, BookCaps Study Guides

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