Strong feeling of that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations; or
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
I tell you it's the poor, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't...
Happy and fortunate in all a man cares for, he does not understand what it is to find oneself no longer young—yet thrown back to the starting-point which requires the hopeful energy of youth—to feel o...
Makes me more than sad, it makes my heart burn within me, to see that folk can make a jest of striving men; of chaps who comed to ask for a bit o’ fire for th’ old granny, as shivers i’ th’ cold; for...
Well—I suppose we must.' FRIENDS IN COUNCIL.
She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father....
It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.
If she would not like to see Master Frederick and his new wife very much indeed? 'She's a Papist, Miss, isn't she?' 'I believe—oh yes, certainly!' said Margaret, a little damped for an instant at this...
I'll not listen to reason...Reason always means what some one else has got to say.
Was he bewitched by those beautiful eyes, that soft, half-open, sighing mouth which lay so close upon his shoulder only yesterday? He could not even shake off the recollection that she had been there;...
Where the stars arose, and twinkled and disappeared behind the great umbrageous trees before she went to bed.
By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the...
My theory is a sort of parody on the maxim of Get money, my son, honestly if you can; but get money. My precept is, Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something.
Margaret opened the door and went in with the straight, fearless, dignified presence habitual to her. She felt no awkwardness; she had too much of society for that. Here was a person come on business...
I don’t mean to deny that men are troublesome in a house. I don’t judge from my own experience, for my father was neatness itself, and wiped his shoes on coming in as carefully as any woman; but stil...
Of all trite, worn-out, hollow mockeries of comfort that were ever uttered by people who will not take the trouble of sympathising with others, the one I dislike the most is the exhortation not to gri...
Though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.
So little do we know of the inner truths of the households, where we come and go like intimate guests!) Maggie
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