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Sense Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell
- My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking…
- But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events,…
- How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of…
- But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
- It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the…
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