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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

~Elizabeth Gaskell

Topics: Cloud Horizon Never Quarter Watch Which

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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

~Elizabeth Gaskell

Topics: Credulity Helps Life Little Smoothly Through Very

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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

~Elizabeth Gaskell

Topics: Always Else Got Listen Means Reason Say Someone

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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

Topics: All Night Burnt Could Else Every Feeling Great Grief Had Heart Indignation Knew Long Me Never Night Nothing Only Perpetually Same Sense Shock Sleep Think Universal Up Waking Waking Up Within

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Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

~Elizabeth Gaskell

Topics: Ever Her Hit Madam Me Off Only Only Time Saw Say She Silly Think Time Us Wife Your I Think

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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

~Elizabeth Gaskell

Topics: Always Believe Charms Contemplating Faults Flatter Individual Just Just As Much May Minds Much Other People Present Themselves Thinking Virtues World

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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

~Elizabeth Gaskell

Topics: Better Folly Foolish Likes People Sometimes Than Wisdom Wise Wise People

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

~Elizabeth Gaskell

Topics: After Easy Evil How Judge Judging Rightly Sees Wrongly

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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

Topics: Different Different Thing Girl Man Second Stepmother Sure Thing Wife

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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

~Elizabeth Gaskell

Topics: Absolute Action Advisor Become Cease Desire Friend His Independent Parent Rule Shall Wise

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: September 29th, 1810

Died: November 12th, 1865

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