Lady Marguerite Blessington
(1789-1849) born on Sep 01
English "socialite, writer".
"She is chiefly remembered for her "Conversations of Lord Byron" and for the intellectual circle which she headed in London."
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular."
"Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future."
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
"The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes."
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.