Lady Hester Stanhope quotes
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“Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!”
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“Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.”
-- Lady Hester StanhopeSource : Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.14
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“My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.”
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“nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.”
-- Lady Hester StanhopeSource : Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.377
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“... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.”
-- Lady Hester StanhopeSource : Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1846). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope”, p.13
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“It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?”
-- Lady Hester StanhopeSource : Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.212
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Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”
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Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
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