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Justice and law are sometimes in opposition...

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There never was a passion in this world, there never will be one, so fantastic, so delusive, so powerful as jealousy.

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We despise what we have, and covet that which we cannot get.

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Misery marks the countenance worse than sickness.

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We never know the full value of a thing until we lose it.

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There is one friend in this world that hardly ever deserts us — and that is a mother.

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Her own excited feelings had magnified it in length, and breadth, and height — had made a molehill into a mountain...

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Ellen Wood

Ellen Wood
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Born: January 17, 1814
Died: February 10, 1887 (aged 73)
Bio: Ellen Wood, was an English novelist, better known in that respect as Mrs. Henry Wood. She is remembered most for her 1861 novel East Lynne, but many of her books became international bestsellers and widely known in the United States.
Known for:
  1. East Lynne (1861)
  2. The Channings (1862)
  3. Mrs. Halliburton's troubles
  4. The Shadow Of Ashlydyat (1863)
  5. Danesbury House (1860)

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