“Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.”
“You wanted to look at life for yourself — but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. LIV.
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I wish you were here
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To hear
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