10 Quotes & Sayings By Lady Marguerite Blessington

Lady Marguerite Blessington (born Marguerite Henriette Vadasz de Villainville, March 29, 1837 – November 24, 1933) was a French aristocrat and writer. She is best known as a novelist and a short story writer. She was the author of the international bestsellers Le Château des Carpathes (The Castle of Carpathia) and Le Trésor de la Sagesse (Treasure of Wisdom). Her father, Baron Sigismond Léon Vadasz de Villainville, was an officer in the French Army who had been wounded in the Franco-Prussian War Read more

Her mother was Léontine Mainaudin.

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The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose and the consequences are nearly always the same. Lady Marguerite Blessington
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Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes. Lady Marguerite Blessington
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Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers. Lady Marguerite Blessington
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Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little. Lady Marguerite Blessington
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Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it except for a brief period the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit. Lady Marguerite Blessington
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Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Lady Marguerite Blessington
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Genius is the gold in the mine talent is the miner that works and brings it out. Lady Marguerite Blessington
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Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower. Lady Marguerite Blessington
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Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular. Lady Marguerite Blessington