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The loss of what we possess nearest and dearest to us in this world, produces an effect upon the character we search out what we have yet left that can support, and, when found, we cling to it with a hold of new-strung tenacity.
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What does it matter whether her husband dines in a dress-coat, or a market-coat, provided there be worth, and honesty, and a clean shirt underneath?
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Yet these real, material dangers, when once past, leave in the mind the satisfaction of having struggled with difficulty, and overcome it. Strength, courage, and experience are their invariable results; whereas, I doubt whether suffering purely mental has any good result, unless it be to make us by comparison less sensitive to physical suffering ...
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Some of my greatest difficulties lie in things that would appear to you comparatively trivial. I find it so hard to repel the rude familiarity of children. I find it so difficult to ask either servants or mistress for anything I want, however much I want it. It is less pain for me to endure the greatest inconvenience than to go into the kitchen to request its removal. I am a fool. Heaven knows I cannot help it!
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I read for the same reason that I ate or drank; because it was a real craving of nature. I wrote on the same principle as I spoke--out of the impulse and feelings of the mind; nor could I help it, for what came, came out, and there was the end of it. For as to self-conceit, that could not receive food from flattery, since to this hour, not half a dozen people in the world know that I have ever penned a line.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Both were not mental but physical illnesses. She was well aware of this, and would ask how that mended matters, as the feeling was there all the same, and was not removed by knowing the cause. She had a larger religious toleration than a person would have who had never questioned, and the manner of recommending religion was always that of offering comfort, not fiercely enforcing a duty.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Charlotte said she could get on with any one who had a bump at the top of their heads (meaning conscientiousness). I found that I seldom differed from her, except that she was far too tolerant of stupid people, if they had a grain of kindness in them.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I remember Miss Bronte once telling me that it was a saying round about Haworth, "Keep a stone in thy pocket seven year; turn it, and keep it seven year longer, that it may be ever ready to thine hand when thine enemy draws near."
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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In short, Miss Hale, it is very evident that your informant found a pretty ready listener to all the slander he chose to utter against the masters,' said Mr. Thornton, in an offended tone.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that room there was a bed, and in that bed there lay a little girl; wide awake and longing to get up, but not daring to do so for the fear of the unseen power in the next room - a certain Betty, whose slumbers must not be disturbed until six o'clock s..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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A child should be brought up with its parents, if it is to think them infallible when it grows up." "But though it may know that there must be faults," replied Molly, "it ought to cover them over and try to forget their existence." "It ought."
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Somehow, I cannot forgive her for her neglect of me as a child, when I would have clung to her.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Her mouth was wide; no rosebud that could only open just enough to let out a 'yes' and 'no', and 'an't please you, sir'.
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feminism
women
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Unos instantes pueden cambiar nuestra forma de ser para toda la vida y
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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She went out, going rapidly towards the country, and trying to drown reflection by swiftness of motion.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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077763b
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Edith was in the mood to think that any pleasure enjoyed away from her was a tacit affront, or at best a proof of indifference.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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If I had any prejudices, the gift of such delicious fruit as this would melt them all away.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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During all the months that had elapsed since Mrs Hamley's death, Molly had wondered many a time about the secret she had so unwittingly become possessed of that last day in the Hall library.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I don't know that you would ever like him, or think him agreeable, Margaret. He is not a lady's man.' Margaret wreathed her throat in a scornful curve.
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I shall never marry.' 'Nonsense, and double nonsense! Why,
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march? It
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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If I thought I could ever grow as hard and different to the abject entreaties of a criminal as my father has been this morning-one whom he has helped to make, too-I would go off to Australia at once. Indeed, Maggie, I think it would be the best thing we could do. My heart aches about the mysterious corruptions and evils of an old state of society such as we have in England.-What do you say Maggie? Would you go?" She was silent-thinking. "I ..
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Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; her will was strong, her sense was excellent, and people yielded to her - they did not know why.
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personality
confidence
strength
discretion
sensible
convincing
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A man," as one of them observed to me once, "is so in the way in the house!" "
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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We're like childer, ever wanting what we han not got.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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seemed as if she could dream her life away in such luxury of pensiveness, in which she made her present all in all, from not daring to think of the past, or wishing to contemplate the future. But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I sometimes think he's half a woman himself, he spends so much money and is so unreasonable.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Tell her to mind her own business the next time, instead of taking up your time and mine too. I believe women are at the bottom of every plague in this world. Be off with you.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Jem had given it to him to bring to her; so it was safe enough; or, if it was not, why she should be glad never to set eyes on it again, for she could not abide fire-arms, they were so apt to shoot people.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Why do you strike?' asked Margaret. 'Striking is leaving off work till you get your own rate of wages, is it not? You must not wonder at my ignorance; where I come from I never heard of a strike.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But I'm tired of this bustle. Everybody rushing over everybody, in their hurry to get rich.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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which he longed to fall. "'Well! It is not well. "
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Still he loved on, and on, ever more fondly.
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love
jem-wilson
mary-barton
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For we have everyone one of us felt how a very few minutes of the months and years called life, will sometimes suffice to place all time past and future in an entirely new light; will make us see the vanity or the criminality of the bygone, and so change the aspect of the coming time, that we look with loathing on the very thing we have most desired. A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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And again it's no fair play to t' French. Four o' them is rightly matched wi' one o' us; and if we go an' fight 'em four to four it's like as if yo' fell to beatin' Sylvie there, or little Billy Croxton, as isn't breeched. And that's my mind.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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As they passed, women from their doors tossed household slops of EVERY description into the gutter; they ran into the next pool, which overflowed and stagnated. Heaps of ashes were the stepping-stones, on which the passer-by, who cared in the least for cleanliness, took care not to put his foot. Our friends were not dainty, but even they picked their way, till they got to some steps leading down to a small area, where a person standing woul..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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So he strode, and ran, and hurried home. He emptied into the ever-useful pocket-handkerchief the little meal remaining in the mug. Mary would have her tea at Miss Simmonds'; her food for the day was safe. Then he went upstairs for his better coat, and his one, gay red-and-yellow silk pocket-handkerchief -- his jewels, his plate, his valuables, these were. He went to the pawn-shop; he pawned them for five shillings; he stopped not, nor staye..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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The wife slept on, only roused by the cry of her child now and then, which seemed to have power over her, when far louder noises failed to disturb her.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Each dainty little child ran up to its mother, or aunt, or particular friend; but Molly had no one to go to.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Her visit had done Mary good in many ways. It had strengthened her patience and her hope; it had given her confidence in Margaret's sympathy; and last, and really least in comforting power (of so little value are silver and gold in comparison to love, that gift in every one's power to bestow), came the consciousness of the money-value of the sovereign she held in her hand. The many things it might purchase! First of all came the thought of ..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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They forgot that the strike was in this instance the consequence of want and need, suffered unjustly, as the endurers believed; for, however insane, and without ground of reason, such was their belief, and such was the cause of their violence. It is a great truth that you cannot extinguish violence by violence. You may put it down for a time; but while you are crowing over your imaginary success, see if it does not return with seven devils ..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I may be the Cinderella to put on the slipper after all.' Margaret
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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And flowering all the year round, especially at Christmas--make your picture complete,' said he. 'No,
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I tell you, I cannot. I could not lead a virtuous life if I would. I should only disgrace you. If you will know all," said she, as he still seemed inclined to urge her, "I must have drink. Such as live like me could not bear life if they did not drink. It's the only thing to keep us from suicide. If we did not drink, we could not stand the memory of what we have been, and the thought of what we are, for a day. If I go without food, and with..
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