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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.

— Sydney, Lady Morgan The Book of the Boudoir (1829)

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Race and temperament go for so much in influencing opinion!

Vulgarity is setting store by "the things which are seen."

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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.

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Your letters are always to me fresher than flowers, without their fading so soon.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected; from the cromlech of the Druids to those toyshops of royal bad taste.

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