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Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox, née Ramsay, was a Scottish novelist, playwright and poet, mostly remembered today as the author of The Female Quixote, and for her association with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and Samuel Richardson. However, she had a long career in her own right.

Scottish - Novelist | 1730 - January 4, 1804

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A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior. — © Charlotte Lennox

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

The law has no power over heroes.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction. — © Charlotte Lennox

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

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