Charlotte Mary Yonge Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!”
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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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“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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“The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved instead of loving.”
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“A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.”
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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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“Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.”
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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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“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.”
-- Charlotte Mary Yonge
