Quotes by Thrale, Hester i




16 January 1741 - May 2 1821. Born Hester Lynch Salusbury but best known as Hester Thrale (although after her second marriage Hester Lynch Piozzi), a British diarist and author. Her diaries and letters are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson. She was also friends, until her second marriage, with Fanny Burney..

"A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass."

Thrale, Hester i on death
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