"Surely it is hardly worthwhile to take up a pursuit merely to please other people."

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From a letter to her son, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1849)

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From a letter to her son, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1849)