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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Tags: teacher, great, adversity, profit

Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the amelioration they had hoped for and it is incre...

Elizabeth Hardwick

Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the amelioration they had hoped for and it is incre...

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Elizabeth Hardwick may refer to:

Bess of Hardwick (1527–1608), Elizabethan courtier
Elizabeth Hardwick (writer) (1916–2007), American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

Tags: books, reading

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

Elizabeth Hardwick

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

Tags: i am, new york, new

The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty separated them forever from the int...

Elizabeth Hardwick

The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty separated them forever from the int...

Tags: the brontes

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Tags: experience, knowledge, passion, reading

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Tags: wisdom, books, reading

Biology is destiny only for girls.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Biology is destiny only for girls.

Tags: biology, destiny, women

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Tags: reading

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Elizabeth Hardwick

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Tags: moment, belief, you