Thinking more of others' happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.


Wives and Daughters, ch. 11

Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

Thinking more of others' happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love,...

Thinking more of others' happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love,...

Thinking more of others' happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love,...

Thinking more of others' happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love,...