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Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostenta

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. – Marguerite Gardiner

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Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? – Marguerite Gardiner

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