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Quotes by Lydia Maria Child

3 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

We do love beauty at first sight; and we do cease to love it, if it is not accompanied by amiable qualities.— filed under Beauty

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.— filed under Freedom

Now twilight lets her curtain down And pins it with a star.— filed under Stars