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About Hester Thrale
Hester Lynch Thrale, nÊe Hester Lynch Salusbury, (January 16, 1741 â May 2, 1821) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts, and a friend and biographer of Dr. Johnson. She is often known by her second married name, Hester Lynch Piozzi.
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âWomen bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes â worse.â
âA physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.â
â'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people; the other qualities make one proud of loving them too.â
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Hester Thrale on Frances Burney 3 quotes
âJohnson says, most judiciously, that the grand merit [of Cecilia] is in the general Power of the whole.â
Hester Thrale on Women
âWomen bear crosses better than men do, but they bear surprises worse.â
Hester Thrale on William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
âA man remarkable for duplicity will be always suspected whether deserving suspicion or no. Gainsborough drew Lord Shelburne's portrait: my Lord complained it was not like. The painter said "he did not approve it, and begged to try again." Failing this time, however, he flung away his pencil saying, "Dâ it, I never could see through varnish, and there's an end."â
About Hester Thrale
Hester Lynch Thrale, nÊe Hester Lynch Salusbury, (January 16, 1741 â May 2, 1821) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts, and a friend and biographer of Dr. Johnson. She is often known by her second married name, Hester Lynch Piozzi.