Louise Imogen Guiney - Goose-quill papers (1885)

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A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

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Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

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No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.

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Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

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Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

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Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

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