Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quotes
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Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances.
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There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon…
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Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I…
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My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
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A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.
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Guilt soon learns to lie.
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There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter…
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Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
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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…
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Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from…
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