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 the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
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 in detail - just as the heavenly fragrance of the rose becomes vapid and sickly… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good! — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
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… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
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;… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
