Jude Morgan Quotes

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.
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One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
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I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.
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Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.
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No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.
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I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.
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Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist
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The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us
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It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.
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Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.
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Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.
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It is so important to think for yourself.
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It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong
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One wouldn't wish to tempt fate
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I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting
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Emily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain slants across your mind with a smell of mossy limestone and yet you are not at home, you might almost be in Gondal or Angria except the towers and the dungeons are of the spirit, the dungeons especially; and sometimes when Emily reads out in her low, almost guttural voice Charlotte wants to run but can’t think why or where she would run to.
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A balance, I think, is needed , " Dr. Templeton said judiciously,"between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.
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So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves far
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I can always forgive where I understand.
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Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?
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Words are only words
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I will do what I can
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Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion
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It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard
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I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.
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Imagination shrinks from the consequences.
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Without money and without connections- I have failed you!
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To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.
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A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.
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Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats
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But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.
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No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.
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None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time
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You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.
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That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.
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She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.
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I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.
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A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.
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If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.
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Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.
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Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things
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When you are in love- everything is romantic
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The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.
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People argue themselves out of their pleasures
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I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
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You cannot believe everything you hear
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