We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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“Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.”
“It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create.”
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