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“Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.”

Elizabeth Gaskell book Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters, ch. 11
Wives and Daughters

Love , Thinking , Dead , Happiness

“That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.”

Elizabeth Gaskell book Sylvia's Lovers

Sylvia's Lovers, ch. 1 (1863)

Hate

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”

Elizabeth Gaskell book Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters, ch. 50 (1864-5)
Wives and Daughters

People , World , Thinking