Elizabeth Barrett

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    “A good neighbour, even in this,
    Is fatal sometimes, cuts your morning up
    To mince-meat of the very smallest talk,
    Then helps to sugar her bohea at night
    With your reputation.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    “The world’s male chivalry has perished out,
    But women are knights-errant to the last;
    And, if Cervantes had been greater still,
    He had made his Don a Donna.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)