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Mrs. Henry Wood
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“... what may be done at any time, is never done.”
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“Let you lawyers alone for speed, when you have yourselves for clients.”
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“If she does not like it, she can lump it.”
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“There never was a passion in this world, there never will be one, so fantastic, so delusive, so powerful as jealousy.”
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“Petty ills try the temper worse than great ones.”
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“... justice and law are sometimes in opposition ...”
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“... misery marks the countenance worse than sickness.”
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“All stratagems are fair in love and war.”
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“... her own excited feelings had magnified it in length, and breadth, and height — had made a molehill into a mountain ...”
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“We never know the full value of a thing until we lose it.”
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“... it is impossible to drive out human passions from the human heart. You may suppress them, deaden them, keep them in subjection, but you cannot root them out.”
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“We despise what we have, and covet that which we cannot get.”
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“We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.”
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“There is one friend in this world that hardly ever deserts us — and that is a mother.”
Mrs. Henry Wood, English novelist
(1814 - 1887)
Full name: Ellen Price Wood.