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• The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Future, Consolation

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.73

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• Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Home, Society, Poor

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.23

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• There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Knowledge, Heart, World

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• People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Past, Years, People

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.3

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• When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

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  Understanding, Excited, Understood

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• We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Smile, Respect, May

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.17

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• Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Imagination, Storytelling, Poet

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• Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Love, Tragedy, Germany

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• Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Regret, Long, Able

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.33

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• There is no magician like love.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Love, Like Love, Magician

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.111

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• Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Grief, Passion, Findings

  Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) (1839). “The governess”, p.230

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• The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  People, Certain

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• Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Genius, Live In The Present, Wit

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.104

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• [His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Fire, Volcanoes, Mind

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• One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Adherence, Principles, Reckless

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.40

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• Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

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  Dream, Fashion, Tyrants

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.36

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• ... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Disappointment, Desire, Failing

  Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) (1839). “The idler in Italy”, p.287

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• People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  People, Advice, Wish

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.256

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• I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Littles, Improvement, Flourishing

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.30

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• In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Beauty, Sex, Males

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.44

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• Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Literature, Judgment, Critics

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• alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Anchors, Casting, Streams

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• Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Talent, Obscure

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• A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Heart, Men

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.10

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• Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  War, Vanity, People

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.261

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