Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.
love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone exc… - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone exc…
Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.
Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well? - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?
love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is … - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is …
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
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