“In the very lowest class it is well to be bred up amid those scenes wherein our future is cast; nothing ever supplies the place of those early associations — nothing ever knits the heart to the place of its birth like the remembrances of childhood — nothing can give the entire knowledge of a people, but having been brought up among them.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No.19. The Abbot — MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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