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Vote: | A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. |
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Vote: | A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. |
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Vote: | He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. |
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Vote: | How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! |
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Vote: | I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. |
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Vote: | Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. |
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Vote: | 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 up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. |
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Vote: | People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. |
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Vote: | Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. |
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Vote: | To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! |
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (September 29, 1810, London – November 12, 1865, Holybourne, Hampshire, England, UK), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist.
Life She was born Elizabeth Stevenson in London in 1810.
Her mother Eliza, the niece of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, died when she was a child. Her father, William Stevenson was a Unitarian minister. Much of her childhood was spent in Cheshire, where she lived with an aunt in Knutsford, a town she would later immortalise as Cranford. She also spent some time in Newcastle and Edinburgh. Her stepmother was a sister of the Scottish miniature artist, W. J. Thomson, who painted a famous portrait of Elizabeth in 1832. In the same year, she married William Gaskell, a minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel who had a literary career of his own. They settled in Manchester where the industrial surroundings would offer inspiration for her novels. The circles in which they moved included religious dissenters and social reformers, including William and Mary Howitt.
Mrs Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her remaining novels are Cranford (1853), North and South (1855), and Wives and Daughters (1865). She was a friend of Charles Dickens, and wrote the first biography of Charlotte Brontė, which played a significant role in developing her fellow writer's reputation.
Mrs Gaskell today ranks as one of the most highly-regarded British novelists of the Victorian era.
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