Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.Anna Jameson
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
Anna Jameson
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Anna Jameson
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
Anna Jameson
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Anna Jameson
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