Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in...

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in...

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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Jane Baillie Carlyle (née Welsh; 14 July 1801 – 21 April 1866) was a Scottish writer and the wife of Thomas Carlyle.
Although she did not publish any novels in her lifetime, she was widely known as an extraordinary letter writer. Virginia Woolf called her one of the "great letter writers", and Elizabeth Hardwick described her work as a "private writing career".