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"But sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."	Elizabeth Gaskell	Wives and Daughters
"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly . . . "	Elizabeth Gaskell	Wives and Daughters
"To be sure, a step-mother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!"	Elizabeth Gaskell	Wives and Daughters
"I'll not listen to reason," she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. "Reason always means what someone else has got to say."	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford
. . . she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford
I saw, I imitated, I survived!	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford
" . . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place."	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford
We looked into the darkness of futurity as a child gazes after a rocket up in the cloudy sky, full of wondering expectation of the rattle, the discharge, and the brilliant shower of sparks and light.	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford
"There is many a young cockerel that will stand upon a dunghill and crow about his father, by way of making his own plumage to shine."	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cousin Phillis
"Here was I asking a blessing and neglecting the means, which is a mockery."	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cousin Phillis

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