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Character Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell
- I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.
- Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown…
- God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon…
- Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days,…
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