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A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Mary Barton

But I'm tired of this bustle. Everybody rushing over everybody, in their hurry to get rich.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: North and South

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: North and South

It is more blessed to love than to be beloved.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Ruth

It isn't knowledge, it's ignorance that - as we've been beautifully told - is bliss.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Victorian Short Stories, Vol. 2

Nothing like the act of eating for equalising men. Dying is nothing to it.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: North and South

She's as sweet as a nut.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: North and South

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Wives and Daughters

Strawberries and cream are all kindness and no common sense, for they'll give him a horrid fit of indigestion.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Wives and Daughters

The cedar spreads his dark-green layers of shade.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Cranford

The grasshoppers sang all the summer, and starved all the winter.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Life of Charlotte Brontë

We farmers ought not to have much time for reading; yet somehow one can't help it.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Cranford

You are all striving for money. What do you want it for?

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: North and South

Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2

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