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title: "2 Prettiest Quotes By Mary Russell Mitford"
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> [I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman...with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/i-have-discovered-that-our-great-favourite-miss-austen-is-my/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

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> [She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/she-was-the-prettiest-silliest-most-affected-husband-hunting/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

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## Other authors on Prettiest

## More by Mary Russell Mitford

> [Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/nothing-so-pretty-to-look-at-as-my-garden/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [ \[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:\] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/on-elizabeth-barrett-browning-her-sweetness-of-character-is-even/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/to-think-of-playing-cricket-for-hard-cash-money-and-gentility-would/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/i-detest-so-much-those-persons-who-insist-upon-telling-you-everything/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/no-fear-of-forgetting-the-good-humoured-faces-that-meet-us-in-our/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [Friendship is the bread of the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/friendship-is-the-bread-of-the-heart/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/i-prepare-myself-for-all-disappointments-by-expecting-nothing/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/does-it-not-appear-to-you-versatility-is-the-true-and-rare/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/prejudices-of-taste-likings-and-dislikings-are-not-always/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/the-slightest-emotion-of-disinterested-kindness-that-passes-through/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/the-power-of-admiring-whatever-is-deserving-of-admiration-the-nice/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/a-novel-should-be-as-like-life-as-a-painting-but-not-as-like-life-as/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/in-our-present-high-state-of-civilization-people-are-so-much-alike/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman...with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/i-have-discovered-that-our-great-favourite-miss-austen-is-my/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

> [I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-russell-mitford/i-have-had-a-great-misfortune-my-dear-old-dog-is-dead/)

[Mary Russell Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-russell-mitford/)

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