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her absent father ran strangely in Margaret's head this night.She almost blamed herself for having felt her solitude(and consequently his absence) as a relief; but these two days had set her up afresh, with new strength and brighter hope.Plans which had lately appeared to her in the guise of tasks, now appeared like pleasures.The morbid scales had fallen from her eyes, and she saw her position and her work more truly
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Cydni
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“Margaret was often left alone. Then her thoughts went back to Milton, with a strange sense of the contrast between the life there, and here. She was getting surfeited of the eventless ease in which no struggle or endeavour was required. She was afraid lest she should even become sleepily deadened into forgetfulness of anything beyond the life which was lapping her round with luxury.”
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Cydni
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“Both must find it hard to realize a future of any kind; the one because the present is so living and hurrying and close around him; the other because his life tempts him to revel in the mere sense of animal existence, not knowing of, and consequently not caring for any pungency of pleasure for the attainment of which he can plan, and deny himself and look forward.'
— Aug 06, 2026 04:00PM
Cydni
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“I suppose each mode of life produces its own trials and its own temptations. The dweller in towns must find it as difficult to be patient and calm, as the country-bred man must find it to be active, and equal to unwonted emergencies.”
— Aug 06, 2026 04:00PM
Cydni
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“It is the town life, said she. 'Their nerves are quickened by the haste and bustle and speed of everything around them, to say nothing of the confinement in these pent-up houses, which of itself is enough to induce depression and worry of spirits. Now in the coun-try, people live so much more out of doors, even children, and even in the winter.’
— Aug 06, 2026 03:56PM
Cydni
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“He did not know good from evil. His father had made the blunder of bringing him up in ignorance and taking it for innocence; and after fourteen months of riotous living, the city authorities had to take charge of him, in order to save him from starvation. He could not even use words effectively enough to be a successful beggar.'
— Jul 31, 2026 08:27PM
Cydni
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“Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time is, insisting on the same unreasoning obedience as when all he had to do in the way of duty was, to obey the simple laws of "Come when you're called," and "Do as you're bid!" But a wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.”
— Jul 31, 2026 08:25PM
Cydni
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'I don't know—I suppose because, on the very face of it, I see two classes dependent on each other in every possible way, yet each evidently regarding the interests of the other as opposed to their own; I never lived in a place before where there were two sets of people always running each other down.'
— Jul 31, 2026 08:15PM
Cydni
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“But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests, said
Margaret.
‘Having many interests does not suit the life of a Milton manufacturer. It is, or ought to be, enough for him to have one great desire, and to bring all the purposes of his life to bear on the fulfillment of that’ (Mrs Thornton)
— Jul 31, 2026 07:52PM
Margaret.
‘Having many interests does not suit the life of a Milton manufacturer. It is, or ought to be, enough for him to have one great desire, and to bring all the purposes of his life to bear on the fulfillment of that’ (Mrs Thornton)
Cydni
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“I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the natural punishment of dishonestly-enjoyed pleasure, at some former period of their lives. I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my ha-tred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.'”
— Jul 30, 2026 07:22PM
Cydni
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“Now when I feel that in my own case it is no good luck, nor merit, nor talent,— but simply the habits of life which taught me to despise indulgences not thoroughly earned,—indeed, never to think twice about them,”
— Jul 30, 2026 07:22PM