Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.

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In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.
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Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.
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I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.
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Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.