Quotes from The Book of the Boudoir — Sydney, Lady Morgan
d. 1859 Ireland
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The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambles, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.
The Book of the Boudoir (1829)
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures (or, at least, who are thought so) mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind, propitious offerings to that deity, whose works are all light, and lustre, and harmony, and loveliness.
The Book of the Boudoir (1829)