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“Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (1873). “The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode”
#Sister Quotes
#Justice Quotes
#Elders Quotes
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“James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.7498, Delphi Classics
#Scotland Quotes
#Space Quotes
#Progress Quotes
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“When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.7498, Delphi Classics
#Taken Quotes
#Character Quotes
#Historical Quotes
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“The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved instead of loving.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
#Love Quotes
#Mistake Quotes
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“A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
#Degrees Quotes
#Delicacy Quotes
#Decency Quotes
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“Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”
#Christian Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Grace Quotes
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“Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
#Aroma Quotes
#Christianity Quotes
#Refinement Quotes
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“That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”
#Doubt Quotes
#Old Testament Quotes
#Richness Quotes
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“If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”
#Loyalty Quotes
#Husband Quotes
#Believe Quotes
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“The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Source : "Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life".
#Love Quotes
#Mistake Quotes
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“The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.8801, Delphi Classics
#Brother Quotes
#Grief Quotes
#Loss Quotes
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“General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (1873). “The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode”, p.268
#Dangerous Quotes
#Application Quotes
#Instance Quotes
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“If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
#Sweet Quotes
#Stupid Quotes
#Writing Quotes
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“I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.”
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.8433, Delphi Classics
#Latin Quotes
#Noses Quotes
#Speak Quotes
