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.
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 peo… - Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
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 peo…
- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world. - Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.
...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature. - Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.
I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once. - Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once.
There's no doctor like meat and drink. - Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
There's no doctor like meat and drink.
lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat t… - Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat t…
It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid… - Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid…
Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good! - Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!
Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of … - Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of …
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