Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell
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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
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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.
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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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 ...
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
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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, ...
