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Your conversation is a spring that never fails, never overflows.

Mary Russell Mitford
I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing...

Mary Russell Mitford
Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

Mary Russell Mitford
'Jane Eyre' is a coarse book, I think, and one to which nobody will return.

Mary Russell Mitford
Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Mary Russell Mitford
No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

Mary Russell Mitford
We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

Mary Russell Mitford
Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Mary Russell Mitford
That letter of hers came upon me like a kiss, so short, so sudden, and so affectionate.

Mary Russell Mitford
That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Mary Russell Mitford
A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

Mary Russell Mitford
Well, great authors are great people — but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

Mary Russell Mitford
Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

Mary Russell Mitford
You must not mind her talking most to Mr. Hofland: she never does talk to a lady when a gentleman is by.

Mary Russell Mitford
I have still the best comforts of life — books and friendships — and I trust never to lose my relish for either.

Mary Russell Mitford
His speech flows not from vanity or lust of praise, but from sheer necessity; — the reservoir is full, and runs over.

Mary Russell Mitford
They know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Mary Russell Mitford
One's conscience may be pretty well absolved for not admiring this man: he admires himself enough for all the world put together.

Mary Russell Mitford
I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

Mary Russell Mitford
I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Mary Russell Mitford
I detest so much... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything — who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

Mary Russell Mitford
I wonder by what accident Miss Seward came by her fame. Setting aside her pedantry and presumption, there is no poet male or female who ever clothed so few ideas in so many words.

Mary Russell Mitford
Does it not appear to you that versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius — versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

Mary Russell Mitford
In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

Mary Russell Mitford