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Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
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There are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.
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Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.
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Laughing is not the first expression of joy.... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.
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Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.
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Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.
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II have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.
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I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.
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Margaret Oliphant
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Born:
April 4, 1828
Died:
June 25, 1897
(aged 69)
Bio:
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural".
Known for:
Miss Marjoribanks (1866)
Chronicles of Carlingford (1870)
Phoebe, Junior (1876)
A Beleaguered City (1880)
Hester (1883)
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