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A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.
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The gentlewoman is touchy. This affliction has given a color to her whole life. Her biography has a certain martial dignity, like the history of a nation; she dates from battle to battle, and passes her days in an interminable civil war.
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I have still the best comforts of life — books and friendships — and I trust never to lose my relish for either.
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The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Charles Buxton
Mary Russell Mitford
Born:
December 16, 1787
Died:
January 10, 1855
(aged 67)
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