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Susan Edmonstone Ferrier - Marriage (1818)

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There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.

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Gertrude loved with all the delusion of romance, and, like many a young enthusiast, had mistaken her imagination for her mind...

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I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

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Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Born: September 7, 1782
Died: November 5, 1854 (aged 72)
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