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• There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Hands, Suits

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.97

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• Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Spring, Doubt, Mind

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• Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Broken Heart, Tears, Dew

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.163

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• How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Grief, Heart, Selfishness

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Past, Youth

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”

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• A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Book, Luxury, Lovers

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.5

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• Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Love, Art, Flower

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• I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Family, Pride, Feelings

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.96

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• Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Convenience, Happened

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.299

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• youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Summer, Disappointment, Expectations

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.2

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• When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Mind, Doe

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.175

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• English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fire, People, England

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.211

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• Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Giving, Action, Projection

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• Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strong, Men, Despair

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.79

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• Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Suicide, Fire, May

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.64

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• marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Dating, Want, Seems

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.17

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• A blossom full of promise is life's joy,
  That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time,
  Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light,
  And it looks flourishing--a little while--
  'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Light, Joy, Promise

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• The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Poverty, Rich, Knows

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• A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fame, Tombs

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• The dream on the pillow,
  That flits with the day,
  The leaf of the willow
  A breath wears away;
  The dust on the blossom,
  The spray on the sea;
  Ay,--ask thine own bosom--
  Are emblems of thee.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Dream, Dust, Sea

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• Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Long, Actors, Faces

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• no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fear, Expectations, Hours

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.162

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• It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Idols, Strange, Fame

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.5

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• Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Confidence, Fearless, Thee

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1867). “Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.231

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• All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sweeping, Assertion

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.136

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