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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Life
Credulity
Helps
Smoothly
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I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Trust
Men
Ifs
Mice
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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 / Novelist
Different Thing
Stepmother
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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Horizon
Cloud
Watch
Quarter
Which
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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Inspirational
Women
Mean
Memorable
Reason
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Easy
Evil
Judging
Judge
Rightly
Sees
Wrongly
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Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Equality
Men
Night
Rising
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Wisdom
Wise
Folly
Likes
Wise People
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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 / Novelist
Wise
Cease
Desire
Independent
Parent
Absolute
Advisor
Rule
Shall
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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 / Novelist
Only Time
Silly
Time Wife Me
Madam
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He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Jealous
Hearing
Names
Spite
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Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Loyalty
Arbitrary
Justice
Obedience
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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 / Novelist
Contemplating
Faults
Individual
Thinking
Charms
Flatter
World Believe People
Just As Much
Minds
Virtues
Present
Themselves
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When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Good Night
Heart
Mother
Prayer
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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 / Novelist
All Night
Grief
Indignation
Shock
Waking
Great Heart Me
Burnt
Perpetually
Waking Up
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Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Smile
Character
Details
Father
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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 / Novelist
Love
Romantic
Fire
Self
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He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always foretold were certain to follow, if he ever did make such a fool of himself.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Unrequited Love
Wise
Cutting
Memorable
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He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.
Elizabeth Gaskell / Novelist
Jealous
Heart
Humble
Pride
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