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Words Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others.
- But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon…
- He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or…
- Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words
- 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…
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