Author: Elizabeth Hardwick

Quotes

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

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