"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"

Gaskell, Elizabeth on judgment and judges   

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"I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on reason   

"Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on compatibility   

"A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on credulity   

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth on fools and foolishness
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"People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on faults
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