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• Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.

  Fanny Kemble

  Country, Two, Desire

  Fanny Kemble (1835). “Journal of a Residence in America”, p.95

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• The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

  Fanny Kemble

  Drama, Glasses, Vices

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• Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

  Fanny Kemble

  Happiness, Rome, World

  Fanny Kemble (1891). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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• I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

  Fanny Kemble

  Rivers, Rowing, Has Beens

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.80

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• Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

  Fanny Kemble

  Conditions, Uncertainty

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• I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.

  Fanny Kemble

  Dirty, Thinking, Hands

  Fanny Kemble (1891). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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• The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

  Fanny Kemble

  Death, Horse, Would Be

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.21

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• What shall I do with all the days and hours
  That must be counted ere I see thy face?
  How shall I charm the interval that lowers
  Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

  Fanny Kemble

  I Miss You, Missing You, Letting Go

  Fanny Kemble (1844). “Poems”, p.129

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• Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them.

  Fanny Kemble

  Cease

  Henry Gibbs, Fanny Kemble (1947). “Affectionately Yours, Fanny: Fanny Kemble and the Theatre”

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• Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

  Fanny Kemble

  Morning, Cutting, Exercise

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.107

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• The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

  Fanny Kemble

  Successful, Government, Order

  Fanny Kemble (1879). “Records of a Girlhood”

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• Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil
  Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

  Fanny Kemble

  Mother, Memorable, Wife

  "The Star of Seville: A Drama. In Five Acts".

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• A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

  Fanny Kemble

  Fall, Numbers, Weakness

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.40

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• I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

  Fanny Kemble

  Islands, Sugar, Mills

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.125, University of Georgia Press

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• The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.

  Fanny Kemble

  Fashion, Business, Integrity

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

  Fanny Kemble

  Soul, Abhorrent, Immortality

  Fanny Kemble (1882). “Records of Later Life”

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• The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

  Fanny Kemble

  People, Giving, House

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.

  Fanny Kemble

  Spring, Flower, Hands

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.144

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• Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

  Fanny Kemble

  Oneness, Heaven, Division

  Fanny Kemble (1882). “Records of Later Life”

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• Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

  Fanny Kemble

  Tree, Carols, Rings

  Frances Anne Kemble, “Lament Of A Mocking-Bird”

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• The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

  Fanny Kemble

  Weather, People, Curiosity

  Fanny Kemble (1879). “Records of a Girlhood”

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• My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.

  Fanny Kemble

  Reading, Night, Hair

  Fanny Kemble, Fanny Kemble Wister (1972). “Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters”

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