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One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.

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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

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It is much to be wished that one had a post that knew what it was doing again; and lawmakers that knew what they were doing. If I were the Government, I should feel rather ashamed of making regulations one month and unmaking them the next.

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I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.'

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One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

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The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

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There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

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But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It is the only love that nothing - not even misconduct on our part - can take away from us.

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A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

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Young children are such nasty little beasts!

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: January 14th, 1801

Died: April 21st, 1866

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