The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
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People seem to lose all respect for the past events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.Lady Marguerite Blessington
Imagination, which is the eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Happiness is a rare plant, that seldom takes root on earth -- few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery. But, there is an admirable substitute for it . . . a contented spirit.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
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