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Own Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed…
- Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.
- She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the…
- Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I…
- When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she observed, the juice…
- 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…
- Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the…
- I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and…
- What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was…
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