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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington - Society Quotes

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Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

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Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

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Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

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Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Born: September 1, 1789
Died: June 4, 1849 (aged 59)
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