Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.
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Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.Lady Marguerite Blessington
. . . if those only wrote, who were sure of being read, we should have fewer authors and the shelves of libraries would not groan beneath the weight of dusty tomes more voluminous than luminous.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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