"All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil, till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame."
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Novelists from EnglandPoets from EnglandAnglicans from the United KingdomWomen authors from EnglandWomen born in the 19th century
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Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Helen to Arthur
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