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• Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Heart, Goes On, Sometimes

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2015). “Wifes And Daughters”, p.602, Elizabeth Gaskell

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• I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Despise, Understand Me, Knows

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “North and South”, p.211, Courier Corporation

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• A girl in love will do a good deal.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Girl, Deals

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1507, BookCaps Study Guides

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• 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 us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but the thing must be, nevertheless. Neither you nor any other master can help yourselves. The most proudly independent man depends on those around him for their insensible influence on his character - his life.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Character, Independent, Men

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1453, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Girl, Knowing, Ignorant

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.34, Delphi Classics

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• He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through,—to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Love, Romantic, Fire

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1513, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, Giving, Strange

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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• But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Father, Thinking, Quality

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.520, Delphi Classics

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• Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, Perfection, Opinion

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• The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Girl, Self Esteem, Believe

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1997, Delphi Classics

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• ..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  May, Return, Higher

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1238, Delphi Classics

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• How different men were to women!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Men, Different

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.919, Delphi Classics

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• I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Hate, Agony

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1093, Delphi Classics

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• Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Morning, Husband, Men

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.2246, Delphi Classics

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• "Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them like a man. Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly. Don't let the soldiers come in and cut down poor-creatures who are driven mad. I see one there who is. If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak to them, man to man."

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Passion, Cutting, Men

  "North and South". Book by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855.

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• A man is so in the way in the house.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Women, Men, House

  Cranford ch. 1 (1853)

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• 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 all ran out nobody knew where, sucking [only I think she used some more recondite word] was in fact the only way of enjoying oranges; but then there was the unpleasant association with a ceremony frequently gone through by little babies; and so, after dessert, in orange season, Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty used to rise up, possess themselves each of an orange in silence, and withdraw to the privacy of their own rooms to indulge in sucking oranges.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Baby, Cutting, Thinking

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.406, Delphi Classics

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• 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 all her pride in spite of herself? She believed that she could have borne the sense of Almighty displeasure, because He knew all, and could read her penitence, and hear her cries for help in time to come. But Mr.Thornton-why did she tremble, and hide her face in the pillow? What strong feeling had overtaking her at last?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Strong, Pride, Imagination

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• 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 face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Names, Sides, Ears

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1309, Delphi Classics

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• In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Couple, Party, Men

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2009). “Cranford”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  World, Association, Cry

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1263, Delphi Classics

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• It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Now I am glad!' It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Running, Brother, Dark

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1297, Delphi Classics

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• Mr. Thornton felt that in this influx no one was speaking to Margaret, and was restless under this apparent neglect. But he never went near her himself; he did not look at her. Only, he knew what she was doing — or not doing — better than anyone else in the room. Margaret was so unconscious of herself, and so much amused by watching other people, that she never thought whether she was left unnoticed or not.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  People, Looks, Rooms

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• I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Trust, Men, Mice

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• A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Son, And Love, Matter

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