Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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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
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
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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
We were none of us musical, though Miss Jenkyns beat time, out of time, by way of appearing to be so.
Elizabeth Gaskell
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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