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Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes: I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.
         

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.


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I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.



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Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?



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In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.



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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.



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Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!





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