A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be … - Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

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The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

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A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

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There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

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Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.

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Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

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