Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Mother Knows Best

You & I must have some serious conversation and make some firm resolutions upon the subject of gaming. I cannot do it without wounding my conscience, but your doing it wounds it doubly, as it reproaches me with what I can never make myself easy about, the bad example I have set you, and which you have have but too faithfully imitated...


Lady Spencer
17 November 1779

6 comments:

  1. Lady Spencer's life was a bland, shallow pool beside her daughter's deep and tempestuous sea of scandal and emotion. She liked to exercise her jaw and pen frequently, but she hadn't a bit of Georgeanna's spirit and so she could not hope to understand.

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  2. I couldn't have summed it up better myself!

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  3. What a selfish woman. Don't gamble because it makes me feel bad that I am a crap parent. Never mind the problems it might cause in your own life, I'm the important one here

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  4. Lol I wouldn't say she's selfish as much as she is resorting to guilt-trips in a last attempt to curtail her daughter's gambling. I liked this quote because it reminds me of my own mother who always threatens to use her "Italian-mother guilt-trip." Maybe there was a little Italian mother in Lady Spencer.

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  5. i've been gone but now am back...it's been great to catch up! :)

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  6. Perfect timing, welcome back! You must participate in the gossip party!

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