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Elizabeth Gaskell: I'll not listen...

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I'll not listen to reason. . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Source: Miss Matty's maid, Martha, in Cranford, ch. 14, 1853.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell, (Sep 29 1810-1865), English novelist, short-story writer; She was known for a sympathetic portrayal of the working class, Cranford, 1853; first biographer of Charlotte Bronte


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